“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 ...

If you want to brush up on your finger dexterity, phrasing, touch and articulation, just tackle a few of J.S. Bach's Two-Part Inventions for keyboard. Pianist Angela Hewitt plays the first two of Bach ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With “Inventions/Reinventions,” Dan Tepfer fills out Bach’s missing two-part inventions ...

"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 ...

Key Takeaway: One critical question to ask when deciding whether to protect your invention using patents or trade secrets is how well the invention can be kept secret. Ease of reverse-engineering, ...