A Year of Bach
Evan GoldfineBach is the greatest, and I haven't yet heard his complete catalog, so in 2024, I'm listening to every Bach composition and writing about it here.
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My Polish Passport
My great aunt, Bella Ressler, died last October. She was 95, loving and headstrong for almost ten decades.
A few weeks after her funeral, my cousins found a letter tucked away in her house that recounted her experience as a girl in Europe....
"Making Music Visible": Ballerina and Critic Faye Arthurs on Dancing Bach
Faye Arthurs spent two decades at New York City Ballet dancing Balanchine, Robbins, and Wheeldon. She originated a role in Wheeldon’s Scenes de Ballet while still a student at SAB, and she danced Robbins’ Goldberg Variations. She now writes...
"You Can't Be Rote" - Harpsichordist Lillian Gordis on Keeping Bach Fresh
Lillian Gordis is a Franco-American harpsichordist born in Berkeley, California, and based in Paris. Her latest album is J.S. Bach: Partita No. 6, English Suite & Preludes and Fugues, released in 2026 on the French label Artalinna, and it’s...
On the Shattering of Shared Silence
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
You inherit a culture rich with ritual, pedagogy, architecture, instrument-making, and etiquette. You develop the sensibility to be moved by crafted sound. You cultivate patience, even when everything in th...
Bach’s Transformations, with Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya
In this episode of A Year of Bach, Evan talks with keyboardist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya about her new harpsichord album Transformations, which explores Bach’s adaptations of works by composers including Marcello and Vivaldi. The conversati...
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