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“Christian Music”: Peter Hilliard (#160)

You Have Permission

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The Math of It Is What Validates It, Right?

Bach was not the golden boy of the family. The older brother, wilhelm friedman, was the one the whole family let put their hopes on. And so baw who wrote, j yesu yuva jesus, helped me at the beginning of every piece and at the end of every piece. It is sort of stupid for us to look at a story like that and go, oh, look how pious he was. If only i could be that pious. That's not the lesson of bach. He thought that this perfection was possible, and he wanted to aim for it with every piece, to the glory of god. But what he got back in return

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