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History's Channel's "This Day in History" featured Bach's birthday, so I thought I'd mark it here as well.

I'm fortunate that I'll be seeing a performance of all six Brandenburg Concertos tomorrow. I have only seen a live performance of #2 before, back when I was in college, and that was like 10 years ago.

Here's a short video about the performace: Acad. of Ancient Music: Brandenburgs

1 posted on 03/21/2009 4:46:55 PM PDT by Pyro7480

2 posted on 03/21/2009 4:47:29 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)

Wasn’t he a member of the Lovin’ Spoonful?

3 posted on 03/21/2009 4:47:56 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> EarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)

You know, when I turn 300, I say, dig me up and let`s PARTY! I might finally be able to hold my liqour.

4 posted on 03/21/2009 4:50:14 PM PDT by He who knoweth not his name

This is getting old.

5 posted on 03/21/2009 4:51:29 PM PDT by A. Morgan (Every night I pray that Rezko and Blago roll over on Obama!)

What a bummer that this history will be wiped off the face of the Earth within 50 years...once the Islamization of Europe is completed.

Very sad...the Europeans contributed so much, but then chose collective suicide.

6 posted on 03/21/2009 4:53:18 PM PDT by BobL (Drop a comment: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2180357/posts)

Happy Big 3-2-4, Sir! :)

7 posted on 03/21/2009 4:58:32 PM PDT by ReformationFan

To: Pyro7480; lightman

Bach, the greatest musician of the past millennium, was a Lutheran church organist!

8 posted on 03/21/2009 4:59:31 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Lutheran pastor, LCMS)

My favorite composer regardless of the era, not just Baroque.

9 posted on 03/21/2009 5:01:04 PM PDT by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)

he’s the lead singer for SKID ROW, right? Cool!

11 posted on 03/21/2009 5:02:18 PM PDT by max americana

Shouldn’t his birthday be celebrated on March 31? Some of the German states had switched to the Gregorian calendar even before he was born, although I assume he was born in one of the states still using the Julian calendar, but the changeover in those states took place in his lifetime. We celebrate Washington’s birthday on February 22 even though he was born before the British Empire changed to the Gregorian calendar (he was born on Feb. 11, O.S.).

12 posted on 03/21/2009 5:04:58 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus

For what it is worth, I have now just put on BWV 1052.

16 posted on 03/21/2009 5:15:07 PM PDT by snowsislander (NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	This is a GGG topic not least because of the Gregorian calendar adjustment noted in it: Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 [O.S. 21 March] - 28 July 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation in composition for diverse instrumentation, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France. That adjustment is complicated (changed different times in different parts of the world, and that's the tip of the iceberg). Regardless, JS Bach is a big fave of mine, second only to Schooly-D (fugue get about that joke) and I run the danged list, so, what could be just an easy to ignore topic that has been added to the catalog but not pinged, is now a show-stoppin' multi-category ping -- arts, music, renaissance, powdered wigs, gout, the Jewish Connection (do a search on pipe organs sometime)... Twenty four years ago I went to a 300th birth anniversary observation at the Reformed Church (or maybe it's CRC?) near downtown Grand Rapids, on Fulton at College NE. There was a performance of the Goldberg Variations on the locally made Magnum Opus harpsichord (boy I loved that thing). Oh, and I'd just got the Sony D-5 (the first I guess of what we now call a "diskman") after a long wait, probably from Sharper Image, and took that along to listen while waiting for the show to start. Ah, youth. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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21 posted on 03/21/2009 5:50:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)

Happy Birthday Uncle Bach!

(I am a descendant of a Magaret Bach, from the German/Switzerland area, 1500’s time.)

So I claim his for an uncle. :)

22 posted on 03/21/2009 5:51:25 PM PDT by JRochelle (Don't smoke the Hopium.)

If Bach was so great why wasn't he on TV?

I know, it's Beethoven.

44 posted on 03/22/2009 6:46:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)

56 posted on 03/22/2009 7:55:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)

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