Sunday, April 08, 2007

 

Pop Quiz

This is a chorale from one of J.S. Bach's greatest hits, the St. Matthew Passion (his musical telling of the Easter story):

Listen.

Question: who turned it into a popular song?

Bonus question: what's ironic about the title?

Winner gets the satisfaction of knowing something.

Google if you must, but where's the satisfaction in that?

3 Comments:

Blogger Orange said...

Music isn't my thing. I don't want to Google—I just want someone to tell me the answer. (You know how I am.)

11:07 AM  
Blogger DO said...

Okay. Since I know how you are:

Paul Simon, "American Tune."

2:34 PM  
Blogger Orange said...

I'll take your word for it—I don't think I know the song...or its inspiration.

6:30 PM  

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