From Bach to Biber Before Crossing the Tiber K. V. TURLEY How one musician found her way into the Church. "As a violinist specializing in historical performance, I was increasingly surrounded by sacred music: hymns and Masses and cantatas and the great composers and priests who wrote them. This served to strengthen my faith in general and drew me steadily towards the Roman Catholic Church." Fiona Hughes was received into the Church in 2017. From her home in Virginia, she spoke to the Register March 26 about music, faith and the life of a professional musician during a pandemic. What Hughes terms her "small 'v' vocation as a musician" is something she feels "called to do primarily because of Catholicism." As it turns out, her professional calling has played its part in a deeper one. "Over 10 years working in Baroque repertoire," she explains, "being aware of Renaissance and Medieval and Classical eras, I started to observe again and again how unassuming the Church seems to be about its own musical treasures yet how clearly the creative ideas historically originate there." She then cites a non-Catholic example, Johann Sebastian Bach, who was Lutheran, but whom she says "was so clearly influenced by what came out of the Catholic countries Italy and France . . . [that] . . . the great work which was the focus of his last years was specifically Roman rather than Lutheran, the