Bach's Universal Music: Simplicity, Depth, and Timeless Calm

22 May 2025 · 2 min

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Eleanor Bindman discusses Bach's universal music, its simplicity, depth, and timeless beauty.
There is the layers, yet there is simplicity, and there is this organic whole that makes sense on some level. You know, and those of us who can analyze things, we're like, oh my God, how could he even do this? And those of us who can't analyze, but are receptive to it. They're like, wow, this is amazing. It makes me feel centering. It just makes me come to myself. People say all kinds of things like that about Bach. So I think that that is something that sets him apart, and that's something that will never be in any way old or out of context because we are wired the way we're wired as far as the perception of music. And we also, we like to have this feeling of calmness and kind of this attention to something that doesn't distract us, like maybe some romantic music that, oh, this is sad. Oh, I can relate to it. But this kind of music really brings us to a part that understands, like it's a universal kind of a language.
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