MASON CITY — From the first press on the keys, organist James Hammann worked to chase a dull and wintry day away and replace it with a lyrical Lenten experience. For a half an hour, Hammann, of Iowa ...

Personal context: as an agnostic, I value this stage in Easter week as a time for meditation on suffering, compassion and death, never more needed than now. Two year ago, when concert halls were ...

Kilkenny likes Bach. At the close of this year's Kilkenny Arts Festival, where the musical focus gave the music of Bach the largest, most concentrated exposure it has ever had in Ireland, Eugene ...