"bach" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that can have several meanings. One meaning of "bach" is a shortened form of "bachelor," which refers to an unmarried man. For example, "My neighbor is a bach and enjoys living a single life." Another meaning of "bach" is a verb meaning to live alone, particularly in a rustic or simple manner. For example, "John decided to bach in the mountains for a few months to clear his mind." Lastly, "bach" can also refer to a type of baroque musical composition, short for "Bach's composition." For example, "The orchestra performed a beautiful rendition of Bach's 'Brandenburg Concerto No. 3' during the concert." So, depending on the context, "bach" can be used in various written forms, such as in a sentence, title, or musical score.
One of the suites, for example, exhibits the musical refrain B-flat, A, C, B, which in German usage spells Bach.
In 1968 it found fame when Walter (now Wendy) Carlos, an early practitioner of electronic music, released "Switched-on Bach", a hit album of Bach recorded entirely on Mr Moog's equipment.
"So bloody fake", mutters the Blue Boar's landlord at the television, while local comedians like Daniel Glyn mock the clunky phrases on stage: "I can speak English and Welsh, but neither of them proper, bach".
Sir John's book is not Bach for beginners, but it is very rewarding.So what about Bach the man?
Sir John Eliot Gardiner grew up under a portrait of Bach and became so entranced by him that he once conducted virtually all of Bach's 200 cantatas in a single year.
For now, he's listening to Bach cantatas, reading Proust – "my cultural life has become much more important to me" – and preparing to visit the Peter Doig exhibition in Edinburgh.
Indeed, the idea of an all-Bach recital is one of the organ's clichés, and one of many examples of how destructive it is to allow academia to seep, like acid, into the territory of joyful, sincere and righteous performance.If anything, I feel that my programming and my performances are still not wide-ranging enough.
The Vietnamese government is beginning to worry that diversification may have gone too far, with many rice growers in the Mekong Delta having switched to shrimp farming.In Ba village, in the central province of Quang Ngai, Bach Ngoc Re, a 61-year-old farmer, is more than happy to go on growing rice on the two small plots that he and his wife were given in the land redistribution.
This was the beginning of a long professional association between the two which included 20 consecutive Palm Sunday performances of the St Matthew Passion in the Royal Festival Hall with the Bach Choir.
The International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach, said the way his organisation had remodelled itself following its own Salt Lake City scandal can be an example for Fifa.
"We teach best what we most need to learn," said the old hippie sage Richard Bach, getting at something similar.
