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A Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, the world premiere of a song cycle based on poems by Carl Reiner’s daughter, dazzling international dance ensembles, circus arts and perhaps America’s premier storyteller will highlight the 16th season of...

Bach’s two great Reformation cantatas were the featured works in the opening concerts of the 105th Bethlehem Bach Festival Friday afternoon and evening at Packer Memorial Church, but another kind of reformation was obvious even before the music...

The Bethlehem Bach Festival on Saturday offered works that at first glance seem as opposite as could be possible — a selection of the Partitas for harpsichord, performed by Charlotte Mattax Moersch in the morning, and the great Mass in B Minor in...

By Philip A. Metzger Special to The Morning Call The 104th Bethlehem Bach Festival kicked off Friday afternoon with an exercise in musical downsizing. The first work on the program was Bach’s setting of Psalm 51 “Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünde&#...

By Steve Siegel Special to The Morning Call OK, so call it the “The Great Fifteen.” Saturday’s organ recital at the First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem, shared by Bach Choir artistic director and conductor Greg Funfgeld and...

By Philip A. Metzger Special to The Morning call One of Saturday morning’s two concurrent Bach Festival programs was billed as “Zimmermann’s Coffee House, a Re-Creation on Period Instruments.” Zimmermann’s was apparently an...

PennDOT warns of heavy traffic on I-78 and on Route 412 in Hellertown and Bethlehem Monday: County: Northampton Municipalities: Bethlehem, Hellertown ROAD NAMES: I-78, Route 412 BETWEEN: I-78 interchange; Commerce Center Boulevard and Friedensville...

The 106th Bethlehem Bach Festival continues through this weekend, highlighting two works not by Bach, but celebratory in their own right. Beethoven's joyous "Choral Fantasy" will be performed 4 p.m. Friday at Packer Memorial Church, followed by Morten...

Friday and Saturday marked the first weekend of the 2013 Bethlehem Bach Festival. Much of the weekend followed the traditional pattern, consisting of two sections of Bach cantatas on Friday and the Mass in B Minor on Saturday afternoon. Although the...

Just over the river and through the woods is not so far to travel to enjoy great chamber music, especially if the river is the Delaware and the woods are in nearby New Jersey. The 24th Raritan River Music Festival begins its four-Saturday series this...

J.S. Bach's indelible stamp is just about everywhere, so even if two of the featured works on the 106th Bethlehem Bach Festival program are by other composers, each bears Bach's spirit, if not his signature. Beethoven's rarely performed Choral Fantasy and...

Lance E. Metz, historian for the National Canal Museum in Easton and an authority on Bethlehem Steel, says no other event had as much impact on the social environment of the Lehigh Valley. The strike and its settlement allowed the steelworkers to get...