Today’s birthday:
Yo-Yo Ma
Here is an excerpt from the sarabande
of Bach’s Cello Suite 6 in D Major,
which Ma apparently played at the
77th annual Academy Awards as a
tribute to the departed.
Yo-Yo Ma
Here is an excerpt from the sarabande
of Bach’s Cello Suite 6 in D Major,
which Ma apparently played at the
77th annual Academy Awards as a
tribute to the departed.
Also departed, perhaps on this date:
Cristobal de Morales,
“generally regarded as the leading
Spanish composer during the
so-called Golden Age of Spain.”
Those who find the Bach
too frivolous may enjoy
an excerpt from Morales’s work
Missa pro Defunctis (1544),
Introitus: “Requiem aeternam.”
Today, incidentally, is the date
of the 1571 Battle of Lepanto.