Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt described his work as being structured like the genetic code…

“Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and ignite in them the fire of your love.”

Electrifying, transcendent, mathematically complex, and yet naturally organic and majestic. It is not by accident the most famous fugue by any composer ever.

Last week’s Eurovision Song Contest produced a winner that is actually worthy of mention on our Music of the Week.

“I have always written songs because I had a question. And good questions can be asked more than once.”

What most audiences do not know is that in 1967, almost 30 years after writing the Adagio as the second movement of his String Quartet, Barber adapted the score for voices with words from the Christian liturgy called the Agnus Dei.

All animals love music. And with the special resonance that Plumes seems to carry in his voice, the most beautiful conversations become possible.

This week’s music is one of Catherine’s all-time favorite songs. Curtis Mayfield was one of the greatest American performing artists of his generation. Catherine remembers how his music “inspired us to understand and love one another—it called us to the sweetness of soul.”

It is the day of Christ’s suffering and crucifixion, the ultimate sacrifice of someone completely pure and innocent, a day that constitutes a deafening cessation, an earth-shaking hiatus in the course of historical time.

What is so interesting about Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major is that it is the first composition for a trumpet that could play the full chromatic scale.

It was Eric Clapton’s 80th birthday last week, which is a great reason to bring him to our Music of the Week.