tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283801405004247693.post3999465369007685042..comments2023-11-02T01:43:51.278-07:00Comments on alwaysjoart: Book Spotlight and Giveaway: Bach, Casals & The Six Suites for 'Cello Solo: Volumes 1-4 by Steven HancoffAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648291837698091531noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283801405004247693.post-86075669976769182462015-12-18T07:04:53.934-08:002015-12-18T07:04:53.934-08:00Hancoff's fervor for the Bach suites echoes Ca...Hancoff's fervor for the Bach suites echoes Casals’ devotion… strains of music dovetail with what is the largest collection of Bach-inspired visual art ever amassed… It is an antique subject elegantly rendered in an impossibly light 21st-century container. – Roxane Assaf, Huffington Post, writing about the iBook<br /> <br />Dear Joana,<br /> <br />Thank you.<br /> <br />Eight years! Eight years ago, I started the process of transcribing Bach’s masterpiece Six Suites for Cello Solo for my acoustic guitar. My only intention was to transcribe and then record them. But the more I worked, the more I felt a need to learn about the man, and especially the circumstances of his life, when he composed the Cello Suites. And the more I discovered, the more questions and ideas arose …until I began to realize that this was not simply a music project, but this was transforming itself into a life’s work. Fulfilling that mission became my purpose.<br /> <br />And now, the project is done and released. And I want to tell you how much I appreciate your helping to make this work known to the world.<br /><br />I have come to feel that the saga I have discovered and articulated in the iBooks is the pre-eminent and most grand and by far the most profoundly serendipitous legend of Western culture. I intend to be touring the country with a multimedia presentation of it, telling the story with slideshow and video – pictures galore -- over the next years. The presentation will be entertaining and enlightening. <br /><br />Thanks again…<br /><br />Steven Hancoff<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12900539744497930207noreply@blogger.com