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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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Ah, the Magnum Opus. Quote from the text next to the image: [snip] CPE Bach states explicitly in his Versuch to "Play from the Soul, not like a trained bird...endeavor to avoid everything mechanical and slavish". [end]

Thanks, Civ.

Anything JS Bach is a treat for me!