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From July 1 to July 27, Hilde Binford and colleagues will present “Johann Sebastian Bach: Currents and Cross-Currents in the Baroque Era and in Our Time,” a National Endowment for the Humanities project whose purpose is to provide an understanding of the intellectual and musical worlds of J. S. Bach. School teachers from a wide variety of disciplines will travel with Dr. Binford, Louise Forsyth, and other experts to Eisenach, Leipzig, and Potsdam, Germany, for an intensive experience of lectures, performances, discussions and field trips. Follow along as the group explores the life and works one of the great geniuses of Western music.

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Leipzig Legs

Sunday, July 13, 2008

I'm a natural walker. At home, I walk about 20 to 25 miles a week on average. Hoofing it through Leipzig (and through Eisenach) has been right up my alley, though distance are somewhat leading. The city center, if you count Augustusplatz as your entry point, is a little over 1km from our hotel, so so the Nikolaikirche is about a mile and the Thomaskirche is about two kilometers. If you're walking back and forth, I'd say that's about five miles a day.

Lovely for me, and I'm thinking an added component to this Institute is the physical aspect. Many of us will have some pretty nice legs by presentation point.

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