The Bach Choir News

BACH CHOIR CHRISTMAS CONCERT When: 8 p.m. today Where: First Presbyterian Church, Tilghman Street and Cedar Crest Boulevard, Allentown How much: $35 What else: Pre-concert organ recital by Thomas Goeman at 7:30 p.m. Info: 610-866-4382, http://www.bach.org When mezzo-soprano soloist Leslie Johnson appears with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem this ...

While there hardly was, or is, a composer who has not been influenced by the music of J.S. Bach, certainly Mendelssohn and Haydn fell strongly under the great composer's spell.

Pop Boyz II Men, "Love" . Like "Glee" only warmer and less vanilla, Boyz II Men, Philly's cherished R&B hitmakers, have spent several seasons covering R&B classics in 2004's "Throwback" and 2007's "Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville U. S. A." The trio , which began in 1988, is now missing a bass voice , but the musky songs and pliable rhythms that ...

If you are new to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, as I am, may I humbly suggest you start with his Magnificat in D Minor, as performed by The Bach Choir of Bethlehem on their new CD.

Just before famed early music soprano Emma Kirkby and lutenist Jakob Lindberg took the stage at Bethlehema s Central Moravian Church Saturday evening, Bach Choir artistic director Greg Funfgeld led the audience in a series of deep breathing exercises.

The 16th century English composer Thomas Morley wrote that song ''should draw the hearer as if by chains of gold to the consideration of the heavenly.'' If it's the crystalline voice of English soprano Dame Emma Kirkby pulling those chains, a heavenly destination is guaranteed.

This month the Bach Choir of Bethlehem celebrates the release of its first recording on the Analekta label, Canada's largest independent classical recording company.

Prepare to be enchanted by Mendelssohn's Elijah, one of the Bach Festival Society's most-loved works.

"Rising from the ashes" may be a cliche, but for the Phoenix Chorale's Holly Sheppard , the old saying was the catalyst for making great art .

Welsh prizewinning choral sensation, Only Men Aloud, will headline this year's BBC Proms in the Park at Swansea's Singleton Park on Saturday September 12.

TV talent show winners Only Men Aloud will headline this year's BBC Proms in the Park at Swansea's Singleton Park, it has been revealed.