Bach Had a Plan, the Return of the ‘Searchers’ to the Pool Table, the Latent Machismo in Irvine Welsh and Other Books of the Week

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Johann Sebastian Bach, “buried with his main weapon (his counterpoint wisdom), was systematically confronted with each of his great projects,” explains Luis Gago in his review of the book The Musical Universe of Bach, in which Christoph Wolff, one of the greatest experts in the musician of Eisenach (Germany), displays his great passion for each of those “discernable planes within the broad firmament of Bach’s music.” That is, Bach had a plan, an…