On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Aryeh Oron wrote: >It depends how far you want to go... >When you put your leg into the J.S. Bach field, you enter very deep >waters. You mentioned 'The Wise Virgins' by William Walton, but there >are endless of many other composers, who arranged Bach's works and/or >composed freely upon them - Liszt and Busoni are only the beginning of >a very long list. Yes indeed...and now I am beginning to realize more how open ended this can be. And, if one puts even your little toe into the J.S. Bach field, I think of all of those works that use the BACH motive in them...and then there are those that quote the Dies Irae...a friend of mine wrote a tango on the Die Irae. Karl