{"id":1220,"date":"2020-03-01T20:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:09:11","slug":"bach-gigue-fugue-c-1705-ken-cowan-organ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Bach ~ Gigue Fugue<\/em> (c. 1705) ~ Ken Cowan, Organ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bach ~ Gigue Fugue<\/em> (c. 1705) ~ Ken Cowan, Organ<\/h1>\n

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I once asked a very good organist I know if he thought\u00a0Johann Sebastian Bach <\/strong>(shown here in a statue in Leipzig, Germany)\u00a0was able to play all of the organ music he wrote. My friend said, “He could, but he didn’t have time to<\/em>“<\/strong>. \u00a0I think that is plausible given the multiple jobs he worked and the supposedly 20 children he fathered in his lifetime.<\/p>\n

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To my mind, the Gigue Fugue<\/em>\u00a0is as good an example of the ingenious counterpoint, the rhythmic vitality, the shifting tone colors, the conciseness of writing, and the not-one-note-out-of-place characteristics that we cherish in this universally admired composer.<\/p>\n

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Personal connection<\/h4>\n

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I saw the Canadian organist Ken Cowan (whose photo and performance are shown here) perform a recital in\u00a0Cedar Rapids, Iowa several years ago at an organ dedication. A number of us had dinner with him. Along with immense talent, he is a genuinely nice guy who is well-read in many things besides music.<\/p>\n

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Writer and political philosopher\u00a0William F. Buckley said: “If Bach is not in Heaven … I am not going!”<\/em> I would have to agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classical-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.oganovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Statue-of-JS-Bach-in-Liepzig-Germany.jpg?fit=816%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}