Rebuilding my iTunes library has been one exhausting project. (I wish that whoever stole my computer would suffer diarrhea for the rest of his low life.) I’ve already transferred a lot of songs from my CDs, but there are still dozens left to play. Listening to different genres of music could be tiring. Smashing Pumpkins, New Order, Duran Duran, Madonna, Janet, Elton, Kanye, Stevie, Ronstadt, Blackeyed, Gwen, even Hajji. After too much percussion, improvisation and electronica, I always turn to JSB.
I have the vaguest grasp of musical structures. They say JSB – Johann Sebastian Bach – was the most mathematical of classical composers. I don’t comprehend all that. What I know is that his music is comforting and hypnotic. When all is not well, I turn to JSB.
Best use of Bach in a movie? My all-time Bach fave, The Goldberg Variations, in Silence of the Lambs (1991). Air on a G String Suite in the Se7en (1995) library scene is also memorable.
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