Loussier Plays Bach

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“Better to be despised and have a servant, than to be self-important and lack food.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:9.

RSV translation reads, “Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.”

“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
—Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)