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March 21, 2008
Bach to the Future
Is he the greatest composer mankind has ever produced? When NASA sent Voyager out into deep space over 30 years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach held three of the coveted spaces on the Golden Record, more than any other musician. If extraterrestrial life finds and can interpret our message, an excerpt from his Brandenburg Concertos will be the first Earth music we share with them.
Today, we celebrate the 323rd anniversary of Bach’s birth. If the number of recordings in our collection is any indication, we’re on the same page as NASA. We have over 100 CDs of his music to choose from, from seven different Goldberg Variations to fugues, partitas, preludes, suites, sonatas, and even switched-on Bach!
Just last month, NASA beamed the Beatles song “Across the Universe” towards Polaris. What song would you choose, to send a message from Earth to far-away worlds?
Posted by JanetD at March 21, 2008 09:36 AM
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