Bach

Eminent musician and musical scholar Leo Schrade reflects on Bach and his music. "UNDERSTANDING AND esteem for Bach's music have developed in a way not altogether regular. The course of men's appreciation of Bach has moved back and forth, like the tides. The causes that have set these tides in motion have changed from time to time. Hence we always think we are "discovering" Bach anew. If signs are not wholly deceptive, a new wave seems to be rising here and now. A new historical interpretation m