Canto

This has been my joy and inspiration for the past year— to discover, little by little, a cross section of Bach’s early compositional moments in Leipzig.

Much to my surprise, no one had been taught how to memorize, either by their music teachers or by anyone else, and the one person who did admit to having a memory technique said she had devised it herself.

After seeing five operas in four days at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in July, I realized that with so much going for it