News on Facebook Regarding  Johann Sebastian Bach and of Course About “Bach on Bach”..

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News Regarding Johann Sebastian Bach..

News, updates, discoveries, information ... findings, insights, exciting developments. All about Johann Sebastian Bach. On my Bach portal, I also report on less spectacular events. Like on November 1, 2012, when this Johann Sebastian Bach website went online for the first time. For example..

News about Bach. Information on Bach artists. News from Bach cities and Bach locations. The latest in Bach scholarship. What’s currently being published? What’s new in Bach literature on the global market? Well, if you’re not German, you’ll probably be more interested in the international market. A current Bach exhibition, another Bach festival, the next exciting Bach competition. Maybe even a new Bach museum. Or a completely different Bach institution. In short: news about everything related to Bach. News about Johann Sebastian Bach ... of course, that’s something this website dedicated to the master simply can’t do without. Via Facebook..

The fact that we began developing the English-language site Bach On Bach in the summer of 2013: That would have been just a brief mention... something new or even exciting for only a very small number of German internet users interested in Bach. And even as news about Johann Sebastian Bach ... it would have fallen far short of being considered such. © Info..

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News Regarding Johann Sebastian Bach and News About the Bach Family of Musicians..

First of all: Click here to get straight to the latest news, updates, and exciting tips ... that is, if you don’t want to read more about the “making of…” of this corner of the website right now. Because that’s how my website works: It always starts with a brief “user guide.” However, it already includes a hint on how to actually get to what you’re really interested in. But if you’d like to have a little fun finding out how I came up with many of these ideas – behind the scenes – specifically when it comes to sharing news, exciting stories, and cool facts about Johann Sebastian Bach … then please feel free to read on. Let me entertain you a little..

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News on J.S. Bach Are Often not the Same as News on J.S. Bach..

Are you still here? Good. Let’s continue with the news, the stories worth covering, and the information about Bach. It does take a bit of journalistic skill to share this news. After all, it is journalism. It’s about finding, sorting, editing, revising, and prioritizing individual stories and reports ... wherever we discover them. Just like in newspaper publishing, the first step is to search for reports, discover them, and then compare them with one another. If I succeed in doing that in the future, you’ll probably come back. To our Facebook page. And ideally, you’ll tell your friends, acquaintances, coworkers, clubmates, and colleagues about my website. Thank you for that..

This photo created quite a sensation about ten years ago. That’s when Bach expert Helga Brück discovered an entire branch of the Bach musical family and was able to add them to the Bach genealogy. All eight musicians in the photo have the last name Bach. And as you can see, long after Johann Sebastian Bach’s time, the title “the greatest musical family on earth” was still well-deserved..

Something New Regarding Johann Sebastian Bach ... How It Didn't Work at All..

This section is truly and entirely “on a personal note.” Please skip it if you don’t have the patience..

I gave it a try. For over half a year ... or so. How do I share news, not just about Johann Sebastian Bach? But also, right from the start, about the progress of my own website? In other words, news and updates about this, my website, Bach on Bach? Thirty years ago, flyers might have been my preferred choice. But as lighthearted as this may sound: There wouldn’t have been any websites back then ... and no internet..

The next consideration was the question of frequency. Irregularly or at fixed intervals? Once a week? Once every two weeks? Or once a month? At what point does it start to “get on people’s nerves”? At what point is there not enough real news? If the intervals are too frequent … the reports become less and less important. As a side note: I’m not an editor, nor am I a journalist ... but I enjoy writing. And I’ve always enjoyed writing a lot. As early as first grade, I received my first A for it. Not because it was good, but because it was a full eight pages long..

Are you still there? Here's another chance for you to turn to the latest news and updates about Johann Sebastian Bach on Facebook: Feel free to click here..

The sinking of this ship, the Empress of Ireland, would certainly have been a news item related to the subject of Johann Sebastian Bach on this website in 1914. For a cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach also perished with the Empress. In addition, there was the complete Bach genealogy, which at that time could not yet be easily photocopied for safekeeping. It was the father of the family, Johann August Reinhold Bach, who drowned: in the photo above the one above this one … the man standing in the back row. © Briana Bach-Hertzog..

Bach News Once a Week? Or Bach News Irregular Every Now and Then?..

Please feel free to read for yourself how that worked out for me. Worked? Past tense? With the news, the updates, the reports ... about what’s important and what isn’t. On my website. Not as a blog, not on Twitter, not on Facebook. Because I’ve preserved it ... so to speak. I’ve saved it for you and, above all, for myself – completely against my nature – so that I can smile about it myself 20 years from now..

Click here. Or read it later, under the headline How It All Began ... at Bach on Bach. The word you’ll see most often is “Entschuldigung.” The German word for “Sorry.” Bottom line: It just didn’t work! At least I didn’t figure that out in theory—but in real life. The plan was: I wanted to post once a week. Without the option for reader feedback, because I couldn’t “spare” any more time for that. And I didn’t want to have to learn on the side how to set up a blog technically, even though it’s probably relatively simple. Facebook and (…back then) Twitter: an option, but the same considerations applied. To be continued …    ..

Why don't people know about this news regarding Bach? And why didn't they know about it back then? Simply because, first of all, there was no internet at the time, and second, because this disaster occurred on the eve of World War I. As a result, hardly anyone took notice of it. In fact, more people died in this accident than in the sinking of the Titanic..

"Bach on Bach" ... News and Bach Updates Once a Week..

Are you still here? I’m glad to hear it. Most of the time, I don’t take myself quite so seriously. But here and now, I do! Once again, it’s great that you’re still reading this. The first post was just fun. Uncharted territory. Posting updates about my project and news about Bach on my own website! Communicating with an invisible community. One-way. I mean, it wasn’t entirely invisible, after all. Even if there may never have actually been a community. In the beginning, this community – if you can call it that with just one person – consisted of my neighbor Carola, who was about 80 years old at the time. It would certainly have been the smallest Bach community on earth..

I would certainly have featured this Bach stamp as news about Johann Sebastian Bach. And that’s what we wanted to continue doing in the future: We wanted to present every new Bach stamp to you on this news page under “Bach on Bach”: right here, among the news about the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Court Composer..

"Bach on Bach" Goes Public: The Exciting Weeks 1 + 2 + 3..

That would have been news. Once it was finished. The new Bach video about the Bach City, or rather, the Bach village of Wechmar. Sure, it wouldn’t have been news about the master’s life. But it would have been news for the “Bach on Bach” website. By the way, if you click on the image, you’ll get a little preview of the many Bach videos on this, my website. © Info..

Back to the Bach News ... Back to the Bach Discoveries..

It didn't work. For a whole week, there was nothing to report except for “routine work” ... and that's actually not newsworthy. And for two, three, four weeks, nothing else happened either. Of course, the news would have been that nothing new had happened. But ... this is starting to get silly..

There were also weeks when so much happened that I really didn't have any time left to write about all that news. So during those exciting weeks ... there were once again no updates on Bach über Bach or on Bach on Bach..

On top of that, there were also “writer’s blocks.” You think that only happens to real writers, not to “hack writers” like me? Oh yes, it does … and here’s how it went: When I felt like writing – I mean, really felt like writing a lot – that enthusiasm benefited the website. Until I didn’t feel like it anymore … on that particular day. Not at all. Not even for the news page, my “News Corner.” And so the weeks went by. Each one with a guilty conscience. Each new section with an apology and always with new, exciting explanations. A great wave of additional hype ensued, and with it came the decision when the English Bach On Bach website launched in the summer of 2013: From then on, the English translations were added to the mix. Enough is enough ... it just wasn’t “my thing.” I discontinued the “News about Bach and the Project” service. Later, the Facebook page took its place..

If the Indian “Bach über Bach”-website had been completed some time ago, would that have been news to you regarding Bach? Probably not. After all, you certainly don’t speak a word of Hindi. Would it have been news to the many millions of Indians? Who knows, who knows?!..

Bach On Facebook ... So, After All?..

In the meantime, Renate, my wife, had discovered the fun of Facebook. Mainly through communicating with our American friends and the American Bachs. Before that … the Facebook craze hadn’t reached us yet. I’d given it a try … but Facebook was – and still is – “not my thing.” And certainly not the combination of “Facebook and Bach.” But surprise, surprise … for Renate, it seemed to be the perfect medium. Since then, she’s been posting from time to time, at her own pace and without any pressure or time constraints. Her posts are short and laid-back..

That would certainly have been the news of the month in February 2013. Or had you heard about it somewhere else? There’s news in Ohrdruf: namely, a second monument. Maybe that wouldn’t have interested you at all as a news item: But perhaps it would have, if you’re a Johann Sebastian Bach fan. By the way, the one pictured above is the first Bach monument in Ohrdruf. To see the very latest one, just click right here..

We Will See, Whether Johann Seabstian Bach "Works" With Us On Facebook..

So starting now, we’ll be “digging” and researching for you ... looking for the latest news. In newspapers, on blogs, and on websites. In Leipzig, in Eisenach, and, of course, through the many warm, kind, fascinating, and wonderful contacts we’ve made over the many years since 2012. Their numbers are growing every day, and one day you can expect to be able to read truly all the news, updates, discoveries, finds, and simply everything worth reporting here: on Bach on Bach and on Johann Sebastian Bach on Facebook..

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