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Lecture 16. Baroque Music: The Vocal Music of Johann Sebastian Bach

  Prof: Today we’re going to start talking about the music of the Baroque period, 1600 to 1750, exemplified by J.S. Bach. Today will be the first of two presentations about the music of Bach: one, today, dealing with Bach’s vocal music, the other coming in sections–yes, we have sections on Thursday, Friday, and Monday–have…

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Dutch speedskating coach: American football sucks

http://twitter.com/#!/Fank_One/status/436482293012889600 Dutch speedskating coach Jillert Anema thinks he knows what’s holding American speedskaters back in Sochi: football. “You have a lot of attention on a foolish sport like American football and you waste a lot of talent, athletic talent, on a sport that is meant to kill each other, to injure each other,” Anema said in a…

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Did Piers Morgan just reveal the ‘silver lining to a USA loss’ in the World Cup?

http://twitter.com/#!/Mr_Fastbucks/status/479729000340676608 Indeed. And, well, normally we’d be pretty pumped about that. Yeah, yeah … we know it’s soccer, but American exceptionalism is American exceptionalism! As it turns out, though, there’s a really strong case to be made for the U.S. taking a nosedive: http://twitter.com/#!/piersmorgan/status/479721363016806400 Ooo … http://twitter.com/#!/BrianFaughnan/status/479721693246926848 So, if we’re understanding him correctly, there’s no…

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