HOW MUCH: Free with two nonperishable items for the cathedral food pantry The eighth annual “Children’s Messiah” will ring in the holidays at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John on Saturday, Dec. 16.

We have all heard it, yet most of us would not be able to name it. The term polyphony (from the Greek for “many sounds”) is used to describe music that employs simultaneous yet independent melodies.

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Yet I came away from the Bach reflecting that, four decades or so back, period-conscious Baroque music-making of this quality and commitment would still have struck most listeners as a revolution – ...