BWV 22, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, written for the
last Sunday before Lent. He composed it as an audition piece for the
position of director of church music in Leipzig, and first performed it
in a church service there at St. Thomas (pictured) on 7 February 1723.
The work begins with a scene from the Gospels in which Jesus predicts
his suffering in Jerusalem. The unknown poet of the cantata text took
the scene as a starting point for reflections in which the contemporary
Christian takes the place of the disciples who do not understand what
Jesus is telling them. The closing chorale is a stanza from Elisabeth
Cruciger's "Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn". The work, structured in
five movements, shows that Bach had mastered the composition of a
dramatic scene, an expressive aria with obbligato oboe, a recitative
with strings, an exuberant dance, and a chorale in the style of Johann
Kuhnau, his predecessor in Leipzig. According to the Bach scholar
Richard D. P. Jones, elements such as a "frame of biblical text and
chorale around the operatic forms of aria and recitative" became
standards for Bach's Leipzig cantatas and even his Passions.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nahm_zu_sich_die_Zw%C3%B6lfe,_BWV_22>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
457:
Leo I (pictured on solidus) was crowned Byzantine emperor, and
went on to rule for nearly 20 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_I_the_Thracian>
1795:
The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution,
limiting the ability of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to sue U.S.
states in federal courts, was ratified in order to overrule the Supreme
Court decision in Chisholm v. Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>
1907:
More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March,
the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's
Suffrage Societies, seeking women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_(Suffragists)>
1940:
Walt Disney's Pinocchio, the first animated motion picture to
win a competitive Academy Award, was released to theaters by RKO
Pictures.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio_(1940_film)>
1995:
Ramzi Yousef, one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434,
was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzi_Yousef>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tacit:
1. Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit: disengagement
represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions ("Developing
Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary", ISBN 9287155798).
2. (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on
induction rather than deduction.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tacit>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has
many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
--Charles Dickens
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens>
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