Joseph P. Farrell

It is one of JSB’s more unusual pieces, for sure. I’m obviously not on board those who think it was composed by someone else.

Oh… I thought maybe I had forgotten a show I was already scheduled for.

I will???

Scarlatti was definitely a wild thinker. I think one of the most enjoyable performances I heard of him was Bob James performing some of his sonatas on a synthesizer. Wonderful stuff. Check it out: Fuga del Gatto, and then the final Allegrissimo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN0T4SaISYY

ROF

Yes one of mine as well, this is actually based on two sinfonias from his cantatas, which just shows once again that he had little mental boundaries in his noggin between sacred and secular music. Here’s the sinfonia version from BWV 146 of the first movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MORa0Y98Z1o&t=57s

Yes one of mine as well, this is actually based on two sinfonias from his cantatas, which just shows once again that he had little mental boundaries in his noggin between sacred and secular music. Here’s the sinfonia version from BWV 146 of the first movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MORa0Y98Z1o&t=57s

Interesting comment and observation Dana. I suspect it is also a feature of the secularized Calvinism of New England.

In a way it’s good… hopefully it will wake people up to the VALUE of old fashioned analogue hard copy

It wasn’t a hundred thousand. It was only a hundred as I recall.

Actually, the Codex Siniaticus is only valuable as a pillar in New Testament critical theory. The text type itself is not ecclesiastical.

I strongly suspect there’s much more going on.

I plan to talk about this story somewhat during the prechat this Friday…

She’s come a LONG way, believe me, since I first brought her home three months ago. She’s very sweet and very smart and talkative. Much more so than when she first got her. She’s even gradually warming up to the neighbor lady.