The Runcible Blog

My earliest memory of music is listening to our record collection before going to bed when I was 6 or 7. I remember listening to Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven on 33's, but I think my favorite record was Virgil Fox's Heavy Organ, a live album from 1972. Virgil Fox played Bach like a rock star, drawing large audiences with his lively interpretation and psychedelic light shows. It's hard to imagine people tripping out on Bach; the 70's must've been fun.

We're coming now to the choral preludes. The first one is called "Wachet, auf," and thanks to the Swingle Sisters, the whole country knows this marvelous, original tune that says, "sleepers, awake. Never again fear the dark. There's no need to fear the dark because on this Earth, for all men, there is a savior."

My earliest memory of music is listening to our record collection before going to bed when I was 6 or 7. I remember listening to Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven on 33's, but I think my favorite record was Virgil Fox's Heavy Organ, a live album from 1972. Virgil Fox played Bach like a rock star, drawing large audiences with his lively interpretation and psychedelic light shows. It's hard to imagine people tripping out on Bach; the 70's must've been fun.

We're coming now to the choral preludes. The first one is called "Wachet, auf," and thanks to the Swingle Sisters, the whole country knows this marvelous, original tune that says, "sleepers, awake. Never again fear the dark. There's no need to fear the dark because on this Earth, for all men, there is a savior."