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For Susan Rhodes, a congregant of over 50 years of a Broadway-adjacent Mennonite church, the place has always been a hub for her family and social life, in addition to
“The governing idea of the work . . . was an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject.”1 So says Bach scholar Christoph Wolff of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080. Comprising fourteen fugues and four canons, we have inherited the work in an incomplete state; soon after Bach introduces his own musical signature as Contrapunctus XIV’s third subject and combines it with two previous themes, the music abruptly stops.
SOUTH POMFRET Twelve-year-old Will DeCapua Whiteman describes himself as “sort of shy.” But when he’s onstage that changes.“By myself, representing me, I don’t like talking in front of tons and tons of people,” said DeCapua Whiteman, who is a.