{"id":467,"date":"2021-07-23T07:12:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T07:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/?p=467"},"modified":"2021-07-23T07:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T07:12:24","slug":"reasons-to-be-cheerful-2-johann-sebastian-bach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to be Cheerful #2: ‘Johann Sebastian Bach’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wake up at 6.50 every day, and\u00a0Monday to Friday while I’m brushing my teeth and\u00a0shaving, Radio 3 play\u00a0\u00a0some ‘Bach before 7.’ \u00a0To be honest after the weather I tend to switch over to that new-fangled pop\u00a0on 6 Music, \u00a0but I\u00a0start the day with a bit of\u00a0truth; Bach\u00a0goes somewhere deeper than emotion, into the blood stream of things.<\/p>\n

You could listen to anything by him (except maybe that church organ stuff) but how about this dark and broody end to St. Johns Passion? – reminds me a bit of Black Sabbath.\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/O9bOaHvKUZE<\/a><\/p>\n

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I wake up at 6.50 every day, and\u00a0Monday to Friday while I’m brushing my teeth and\u00a0shaving, Radio 3 play\u00a0\u00a0some ‘Bach before 7.’ \u00a0To be honest after the weather I tend to switch over to that new-fangled pop\u00a0on 6 Music, \u00a0but I\u00a0start the day with a bit of\u00a0truth; Bach\u00a0goes somewhere deeper than emotion, into the blood … Continue reading Reasons to be Cheerful #2: ‘Johann Sebastian Bach’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[160,162,161,159,16],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":462,"url":"https:\/\/www.vincentburke.co.uk\/?p=462","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":0},"title":"365 Reasons to be Cheerful #1: ‘Dear Prudence’ by the Beatles","author":"admin","date":"July 22, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes - 365 days worth of \u00a0something beautiful or uplifting each day. \u00a0Will I keep it up everyday? - \u00a0doubtful, I'm going camping in 2 weeks - but 365 of them will happen;\u00a0 it should be easy I've thought of a few already. 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