Calvin R. Stapert teaches music at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was a founding member of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship.
No composer has more universal appeal than Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The plethora of concerts, festivals, recordings and publications that came in the wake of the Bach Anniversary Year of 2000 provides ample evidence.
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