BACH ANNIVERSARY
HIS TALE OF TWO 'HERRINGS.- ' * London has been celebrating -the 250th anniversary of the birth ‘of- Bach by holding a festival -Of his niusic. • Most of the great concert halls -'werecrowded with enthusiastic audiences. The Bach Cantata Club held a reception, and the Archbishop of York paid, a tribute to this giant of composers. He said that Bach’s music gives to us for some . moments of our passage through time an entry, into the experience of eternity. Like many another genius Bach had a hard childhood. His father died when he was ten. Fortunately he had a beautiful treble voice, and at 14 he was earning his living as a chorister. He would walk 30 miles to Hamburg to hear performances by a famous organist* Once he lingered so long that he was faint with hunger, and a smell of cooking led him to stop longingly outside* an inn. A window, .opened .and somebody threw him two herrings, Which he picked .upr-'-eagerly.. To Jiis surprise a Dafiish ducat was hidden' in each one, put there, by the kindly sofil. who threw them out. . | . Bach soon became a brilliant organist, but he never, became':ricE ■ :
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1935, Page 21 (Supplement)
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195BACH ANNIVERSARY Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1935, Page 21 (Supplement)
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