This is a shame!

[harman/kardon]

We forgot to celebrate or at least remember the Birthday of the greatest composer ever!

Yesterday was Johann Sebastian Bach's 330th Birthday. Since I was about 13 years old his music means incredibly much to me and is an essential part of my life.

 

[4-2-7]

That guy's old... I don't think he wants to be reminded of how old he is.

 

[harman/kardon]

That guy's old... I don't think he wants to be reminded of how old he is.

But his music is as young as the most present moment! :yes:

 

[ducati_EL34]

I think he stopped celebrating birthdays after hitting the third century mark.

Besides, a meaningless thread on AK is nothing compared to people listening to his music, on a regular basis.

 

[MikeT.]

Thank you Johann

 

[BLAH BLAH]

Ditto. ..

 

[fdrennen]

Mea culpa I'll try to make up for it.

 

[jgannon]

Don't worry Chris! There are many of us who celebrate his birthday, every day!

 

[RT Fan]

I didn't forget, there was a news item about musicians playing Bach in the subway system here in NYC to celebrate his birthday. So I played the Brandenburg Concertos & "Bach's Greatest Hits' with breakfast on Saturday morning.

 

[fdrennen]

Happy belated

J.S. Bach: Das Kantatenwerk Gustav Leonhardt Tölzer Knabenchor (Chorus Master: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden) & King's College Choir Cambridge (Chorus Master: David Willcocks) / Leonhardt-Consort Telefunken 6.35030 vol. 4​

 

[harman/kardon]

I really really love this Cantata release. I have some vinyl albums of this Harnoncourt/Leonhardt release and the complete on 60 CD's!

 

[hjames]

But I LIKE Beck, I have a couple different copies of Sea Change (DVD-A, SACD, CD, etc) and Morning Phase.

 

[mfrench]

Not forgotten by me. on the 21st, I spun a compilation that i recorded, that I call, A Week of Pure Bach - A five concerts in seven days week of pure Bach music. I've also been spinning other Bach recordings all month.

 

[onwardjames]

I seem to recall that Bach's output was prodigious. Someone figured out that FOR EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE, FROM BIRTH TO DEATH, he averaged something like 20 pages of music A DAY!

I think it was college music appreciation, I forget, but that factoid stuck with me.

Off to spin Toccata and Fugue in D minor (the saddest of all chords).

 

[harman/kardon]

Folks when did you listen to the Passacaglia the last time? (Passacaglia c minor BWV 582)

This piece of music is absolutely BREATHTAKING! And it is such a hard one to play for sure...!

 

[jgannon]

Folks when did you listen to the Passacaglia the last time? (Passacaglia c minor BWV 582)

This piece of music is absolutely BREATHTAKING! And it is such a hard one to play for sure...!

Of course one of the great pieces by Bach...I've got recordings of it by Albert Schweitzer, Fritz Heitmann, Carl Weinrich, and Ernest White.

 

[fdrennen]

Most sources give Bach a birthday of March 31 though some say March 21, let's have a 10 day Bachfest.

 

[jgannon]

Most sources give Bach a birthday of March 31 though some say March 21, let's have a 10 day Bachfest.

Really? I never came across a March 31st birthdate.

 

[harman/kardon]

Most sources give Bach a birthday of March 31 though some say March 21, let's have a 10 day Bachfest.

I think that a 10 day Bachfest is appropriate!

 

[Gang-Twanger]

I saw him recently, and I swear he didn't look a day over 329.

The rigor mortis probably wreaked havoc on his playing though. I can't imagine he's able to rip on the harpsichord the way he did back in his more-conscious days.