“Five-Part Invention,” Andrea J. Buchanan’s beautifully perceptive novel, begins with a reckoning. The elderly Lise is penning a letter to her estranged daughter Anna. Nearing the end of her life, ...

On our piano’s rack there’s long been an ancient volume of J. S. Bach’s Three Part Inventions for Piano. I’ve never paid it any particular attention until today when, for some reason, I saw it afresh, ...

Pianist Dan Tepfer has improvised pieces for his new album, Inventions / Reinventions, using a framework similar to Bach's Two-Part Inventions. In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set ...

When I was a teenager trying to learn how to play piano, one of the hardest things for me was having to learn two different parts and then put them together. At least, that’s how my teenage brain saw ...

"Bittersweet, according to Webster, is anything that is “pleasant yet painful. And that is an apt description of Live at Wangaratta,, taped at the Jazz Festival bearing that name by the east ...

He points at the wall, to the white board where he's drawn a small family tree. At the top are John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, who founded the city of Houston 171 years ago, and their ...

"Bittersweet, according to Webster, is anything that is "pleasant yet painful. And that is an apt description of Live at Wangaratta,, taped at the Jazz Festival bearing that name by the east ...

In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...