In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...

Composer-centered stories make for great movies. Whether we can attribute it to the enduring power of their work – "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" as we approach Halloween, Tchaikovsky’s cannonfire in ...

Inez Pope celebrated her 100th birthday as few centenarians had ever done: She played the toccata section from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” on a Stockton church organ that ...

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