Open Air for Tuesday, November 3, 2009

As a grown-up lullaby, it had some drawbacks. Almost as if, just as the insomniac was finally falling asleep, the composer shouts, "Are you asleep yet?!!" Call it a joke between friends. Though Count Keyserling used a go-between to request the music from the Leipzig Kapellmeister, he knew the famous Bach. And Bach felt he knew the aristocrat well enough to incorporate popular songs, jack-in-the-box surprises and other breaks of decorum in what was supposed to be a musical sleeping pill. The result was named after the go-between, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. And we'll hear Bach's Goldberg Variations played by that serial smasher of decorum, Glenn Gould, tonight on Open Air

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