
Reinventing Bach
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In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer's life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing to a mobile recording unit set up at London's Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach's organ works to the world beyond the churches, and Pablo Casals's Abbey Road recordings of Bach's cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia - which made Bach the sound of children's playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike - and we witness how Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool.
Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Goedel, Escher, Bach - through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod - Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist.
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'A stimulating and enjoyable account of how and what we hear when we listen to this great composer' 'An appreciation of Bach that is both impassioned and subtle.' 'Absorbing, beautifully written book.' 'A stimulating and enjoyable account of how and what we hear when we listen to this great composer''Absorbing, beautifully written book.'
'An appreciation of Bach that is both impassioned and subtle.'
'Elie is an acute and passionate listener, writing sensitively about music's impact on him.'
'Absorbing and cleverly written.'
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