Today’s birthday:
Yo-Yo Ma
 
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Here is an excerpt from the sarabande
of Bach’s Cello Suite 6 in D Major,
which Ma apparently played at the
77th annual Academy Awards as a
tribute to the departed.

Also departed, perhaps on this date:

Cristobal de Morales,
“generally regarded as the leading
Spanish composer during the
so-called Golden Age of Spain.”

Those who find the Bach
too frivolous may enjoy
an excerpt from Morales’s work
Missa pro Defunctis (1544),
Introitus: “Requiem aeternam.”

Today, incidentally, is the date
of the 1571 Battle of Lepanto.