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Three hundred years ago, when Harvard Square was a peaceful field and Increase Mather was the President of Harvard, Bach was born in Germany...
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...
Beginning Saturday, Harvard will sponsor the only week-long festival devoted to Bach in the Boston area...
Harvard is not alone in its tribute to Bach. On March 21, Bach's actual birthday, St. Matthew's Passion, one of his major works, was broadcast worldwide from Leipzig, the city where Bach spent most of his life. A number of other universities have also celebrated Bach's birth, but mostly with one-day celebrations...
...festival is more ambitious. We're expecting to do quite well--not because of anything we've done, but because Bach draws crowds," said Daniel Melamed, coordinator of the event...