TOCCATA – Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will continue its 11th annual WinterFest this week with guest Elizabeth Pitcairn performing with the Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius violin. The performance ...

This spooky staple has long been associated with the horror genre, and was a go-to for scary films in the silent movie era. But what makes this work for the organ just so unsettling? Composed ...

Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn night. As the door opens, an organ pierces through the thick silence and echoes through the cavernous halls. The tune that comes to many minds ...

But first, some background. The Toccata and Fugue is most commonly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, but since the 1960’s, musicologists have opened the issue of authorship up for debate. And ...

The Orchestra and Community Choral Artists of the Tahoe Area will continue the sonic fireworks into Fourth of July weekend and beyond. The orchestra will kick off its summer schedule with a sonic boom ...

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor is one of the most famous pieces of Baroque organ music ever written - with a particularly iconic opening Bach probably composed the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, ...

Many folks would call Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor the ultimate piece of scary music, thanks to any number of horror movies and pop culture moments that have used its thundering organ sounds as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via ...