Love it or hate it, Pachelbel’s Canon in D is one of the most famous pieces of classical music of all time, but the facts behind the composition aren’t as well known. Classic FM busts the myths behind ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Pachelbel's "Canon in D" is one of the most famous and frequently heard works in ...

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 ...

Let's face it, the mere mention of Pachelbel's Canon sends shivers down most cellists' spines. No wonder musicians constantly reinvent the piece with greater or lesser degrees of irony. This band ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Love it or hate it, Pachelbel’s Canon in D is one of the most famous pieces of classical music of all time, but the facts behind the composition aren’t as well known. Classic FM busts the myths behind ...