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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Demillo

An Arkansas organist is playing 18 hours of Bach this year, one lunch break at a time

Year of Bach Arkansas - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

It was hushed inside a 140-year-old cathedral on the outskirts of Little Rock's downtown as about five dozen people sat in the pews during a recent lunch break in January.

The nave filled with the sounds of the Gothic church's pipe organ, and a screen showed a man performing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Those gathered weren't there for church, but for the third concert in a series Colin MacKnight is performing over the next year to commemorate the 275th anniversary of Bach's death.

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