Tag: JS Bach

  • Exceptionality: A Discourse on Race, Societal Worth, and Culture

    Many people. in contemporary times, hold it as an article of faith that all societies and cultures are of equal value. I assert this is a myth. If one is intellectually honest, virtually any metric you apply to evaluate and analyze the strengths and weaknesses, and contributions to the vast fields of knowledge, of societies…

  • Jarvis and Bach

    Australian author Martin Jarvis starts with an astounding assertion, that Bach’s second wife Anna Magdalena Bach wrote not only the Solo Cello Suites, but other major works attributed to Bach as well.  He expects us to go along with him with basically no real evidence. The much ballyhooed handwriting analysis is a joke, and it…