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 ...

As wedding traditions evolve, it becomes increasingly common to walk down the aisle to sappy, chart-toppers by Ed Sheeran or wistful acoustic covers of classic rock hits. But Johann Pachelbel's Canon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As wedding traditions evolve, it becomes increasingly common to walk down the aisle to sappy, chart-toppers by Ed Sheeran or wistful acoustic covers of classic rock hits. But Johann Pachelbel’s “Canon ...

On a recent evening, conductor Leonard Slatkin lifted his baton and signaled the downbeat for that unfailingly lovable Baroque chestnut, Pachelbel’s Canon in D. The music, played by 21 members of the ...

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 ...

I cannot say that I fully understand the deep inroads Pachelbel’s Canon in D has made into Korean pop culture, but like the other 48 million people who have watched Funtwo’s rock guitar version of the ...

It's on the radio periodically, and I guess it's pretty popular, but I have no idea WTF it's called, or what any of the lyrics are. Anywya, the motif from Pachelbel's canon is embedded into the song ...