Train enthusiasts and Baroque specialists unite, this is the video for you. Canon alla Hornpipe. An enduring Baroque masterpiece has been given an adventurous new outing, and there’s no chance of this ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Everyone has heard the bass line of Pachelbel's canon in D, but far fewer have seen it. That was until ...

The distinctive chirps of singing cicadas are a highlight of summer in regions where they proliferate; those chirps even featured prominently on Lorde’s 2021 album Solar Power. Now, Japanese ...

It takes more guts than you might think to open a Hartford Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Series event with the Pachelbel Canon. According to the program booklet it is the first time in the history of ...

Pachelbel's "Canon in D" is like the Doom of the music world. It's been performed on everything from train horns to rubber chickens to strange juggling bells — it would truly be easier to find an ...

The Canon is today instantly recognisable; but, quite unbelievably, it all but disappeared from our musical history for over 200 years. Unfortunately, there is conceivably an entire world of ...

In our occasional series "What's in a Song," produced by the Western Folklife Center, Alaska fisherman and songwriter John Palmes has Johann Pachelbel's "Canon in D" running through his head along ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is a news editor with The Associated Press and a cellist who has played the eight notes in the bass line of Pachelbel's "Canon" at weddings nearly a gazillion times. It's not ...