HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH!

March 22, 2016 / Joseph P. Farrell /

A belated happy birthday to one of my favorite composers, J.S. Bach, born March 21, 1685 in Eisenach:

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

7 Comments

rich overholt on March 28, 2016 at 9:05 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0
rich overholt on March 28, 2016 at 8:57 am

Although I prefer the Eastern guys, like Rachmaninoff, Smetna, Dvorak, Dukas, and Holst, there is no denying the unequaled legacy left by J.S. Bach…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaRNe2jwHE0

By the way, that Gustav Holst really had it going on; music teacher at a all gurls school. That’s whut I’m talkin about!
terminally skeptical on March 26, 2016 at 5:59 pm

I celebrated J.S’s B’day recently by luxuriating in this recital and a round of Bach flower remedies. I’m now almost healed. Since his departure I can’t think of another who ranks quite as high on the Richter Scale.
Margaret on March 23, 2016 at 12:42 am

Thanks for that video with Karl Richter … what amazing skill on such a complex piece. 300+ years later, Bach’s music is still so much alive and influential. It was a pleasure to hear one of my favorites on the radio that day, his Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuMtEof9MWs
TRM on March 22, 2016 at 11:05 pm

And here is the 500th anniversary piece composed by Oscar Peterson in honour of JSB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzMD—rmtk

Enjoy.
John McD on March 22, 2016 at 10:33 pm

Bravo! Herr Richter!
Nathan on March 22, 2016 at 9:50 pm

Truly an amazing man , genius would be a better description