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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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The organ and church of the Bachkirche, Arnstadt

Thursday, July 5, 2012



Arnstadt is a lovely, historic place, so Emily, Zack and I discovered. What I guess will be a constant discovery for me is how empty all these churches are. We were the only visitors in one other church as well. Although this certainly didn't diminish the experience, I always need to remind myself of how mainstream historical figures like Bach AREN'T. But that's okay. I never considered myself a mainstream thinker or participant for that matter - GO FRINGE! But I do like taking otherwise non-popular musical subjects and bringing to fruition their simpler aspects that should make figures like Bach seem unavoidably popular.

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