Show THE POWER OF CF MUSIC great composer orn poser cepla ns necessity of finish ng no improve atlon the duke of sale saxe vi VV rittar once in kited john sebastian bach dach to attend a dinner at the palace before the guests sat doan don to the feast bach each was asked to five give an improvisation the composer seated himself at the harps chord and straightway forgot all about dinner aad and everything else he play ed so loss long that at last the duke toch ed his shoulder and sa sad d we are very much obliged master bat we inest not let the BOUP soup get cold bach sprang to his feet and followed the dulie duke to the dining room without utter leg ing a word ord but he was scarcely scar eely seat ed d when he sprang up rushed back to the struck h instrument like one demented struck a lev few chords and returned to th dining diming room el evidently dently feeling much better 1 I 1 beg pardon y your our highness he said but ou on inter erupted me in a series of chords and arpeggios on oil the dominant seventh and I 1 could not feel st vt ease until thea the were resolved into the tonic it Is as if you had snatched a glass of water from the lips of a man dying of thirst nov Is I 1 have drunk the g ass oat out and am content |