Raine beautifully evokes how music captures the mess of life In John Eliot Gardner's magnificent wide-ranging biography of Bach, Music In The Castle of Heaven, he tells the story of the composer's early run-in with a bassoonist with his typical zest for detail. "[H]e called him a Zippel Fagottist. Even in recent biographies this epithet continues to be translated euphemistically as a 'greenhorn', a 'rapscallion', …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:36AM on June 30, 2021