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Today, there are daily traffic jams in Harvard Square, Derek C. Bok is Harvard's President, and Harvard is celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach's 300th birthday...
...Harvard--and everyone else--bringing back Bach? This year also marks Handel's 300th birthday, as well as Scarlatti's, but neither of these has drawn nearly as much attention...
...Wolff did. The discovery brought Wolff and Bach tremendous media attention, both because it was a major addition to Bach's repertory, and because it occurred during the 300th anniversary of Bach's birth...
...Wolff has already planned an extravagant event to celebrate Bach's 300th birthday. Several years ago. Wolff decided that Harvard should sponsor a week-long musical festival in recognition of the great composer. The festival begins next week...
Linked forever by a happy accident that saw them born within a month of each other in cities only 80 miles apart, Bach and Handel make an odd couple. Handel, whose 300th birthday was last month, was the son of a Halle barber- surgeon who wanted his boy to study law. A well-traveled cosmopolitan, he settled in London, anglicized his name from Handel, and became the dominant operatic and oratorio composer of his day. When he died, a bachelor at 74, he was buried with great ceremony in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey. By contrast, Bach, whose birthday...