Guest
Join Ernie Green and Larry Molinaro as they talk with renowned Bach scholar Michael Marissen for a discussion about Bach’s Musikalisches Opfer (“Musical Offering“), BWV 1079. MICHAEL MARISSEN is Daniel Underhill Professor, Emeritus, at Swarthmore College. He has also been visiting professor on the graduate faculties at Princeton and Penn. His many books include “The Social and Religious Designs of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos“ (Princeton, 1995), “Lutheranism, anti-Judaism, and Bach’s St. John Passion“ (Oxford, 1998), “Tainted Glory in Handel’s Messiah“ (Yale, 2014), and “Bach & God“ (Oxford, 2016). His essays have appeared in the Harvard Theological Review, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times.
