To my remark, based soley on remarks of the HIP keyboardest Robert Levin,
that Bach was the third choice for the St. Thomas job, Tom Connor writes:

>I think this says more about the hiring committee than it does Bach.

You can fault the committee for poor judgment.  Paraphrasing Levin, some
members thought that they were settling for mediocrity.  But poor judgment
was more than compensated for by extraordinary luck.

Bernard Chasan