Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helmuth Rilling, a renowned conductor and co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival, died Feb. 11. He was 92 years old. The music ...

The founder of the International Bach Academy, Helmuth Rilling, has died at the age of 92. He was a recipient of the Citizens' Medal of the City of Stuttgart and the Otto Hirsch Award, among other ...

He was the first to record all of J.S. Bach’s nearly 200 sacred cantatas, a project that stood out not only for its range but also for its steadfast style. By David Allen Helmuth Rilling, an eloquent, ...

There are a few great composers who gave us so much music that we are still coming to terms with it. Think of Haydn and his hundred-plus symphonies, Rossini’s nearly 40 operas, and the astonishing ...

, 35, a bright British conductor who comes out of the early music movement, will replace founder Helmuth Rilling as artistic director at the at the end of the 2013 season. Rilling, who led the 17-day ...

"Music should never be merely comfortable, never fossilized, never soothing. It should startle people and reach deep down inside them, forcing them to reflect." -- Helmuth Rilling (Oregon Bach ...

Toronto Symphony Orchestra University of Toronto MacMillan Singers and Bach Festival Singers Helmuth Rilling, conductor At Roy Thomson Hall In Toronto on Thursday The musical glory of the Christian ...

Helmuth Rilling, a renowned conductor and co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival, died Feb. 11. He was 92 years old. The music scene of Eugene, including the Oregon Bach Festival and the University of ...

Rilling, a Grammy-winning German conductor renowned for his recordings of Bach, helped the University of Oregon put on its first festival for the composer in 1970. For more than four decades, Rilling ...