John Eliot Gardiner
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April 20, 1943
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“Many people remember that when in 1977 the Voyager spacecraft was launched, opinions were canvassed as to what artefacts would be most appropriate to leave in outer space as a signal of man's cultural achievements on earth. The American astronomer Carl Sagan proposed that 'if we are to convey something of what humans are about then music has to be a part of it.' To Sagan's request for suggestions, the eminent biologist Lewis Thomas answered, 'I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach.' After a pause, he added, 'But that would be boasting.”
― Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
― Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
“Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.”
― Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
― Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
“Monteverdi gives us the full gamut of human pssions in music, the first composer to do so; Beethoven tells us what a terrible struggle it is to transcend human frailties and to aspire to the Godhead; and Mozart shows the kind of music we might hope to hear in heaven. But it is Bach, making music in the Castle of Heaven, who gives us the voice of God - in human form.”
― Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
― Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
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