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This is a significant change from the last major study of the GSAS, the Wolff Report of 1969, which suggested that the graduate school decrease enrollment...
...have not stressed Bach in my teaching of ferrings, because I think it's not good to develop a own track situation," Wolff said. In fact, the first class Wolff taught at Harvard was about Mozart, another one of his favorite composers. However, Wolff is currently teaching a core course on Bach, called, appropriately enough, "Bach in his Time and Through the Centuries," Literature and Arts...
...Wolff is amazing," said one student currently taking the class. "He's fantastic at describing things that are hard to phrase--it's difficult to put music into words, and he's very good at communicating that." Wolff's effectiveness lies in the way he combines lecture with performance, she said, adding that he's even successful at doing both at once...
...Indeed, Wolff is successful at doing lots of things at once, some entirely unrelated to Bach. First at Columbia, and now at Harvard. Wolff teaches, edits, writes and performs, though he acknowledges that his duties as a scholar keep him from performing as much as he would like...
Currently, Wolff is co-editor of the Bach Jahrbuch, an important publication of Bach scholarship. He is also working on a three-volume Bach Compendium, which will provide information on all of Bach's works and sources. Wolff has also written a number of books about Bach and Mozart...