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Now is the perfect time to embrace the confluence of all artistic expression. Music shouldn't exist in a vacuum. The poet should know the graphic artist. The graphic artist should know the filmmaker. The filmmaker should know the band, and they should all use the Internet to communicate.Explore what little we have and feel free to contact us with your own anomalous thoughts. We invite you to push us in directions that we cannot conceive.Albert Einstein, a huge fan of Bach's, advised others to "listen, play, love, revere—and keep your mouth shut"Another character is Pablo Casals, one of the 20th century's greatest cellists, who, at the age of 13, discovered a copy of Bach's six suites for unaccompanied cello (until then forgotten) in a music shop in Barcelona. He proceeded to play the suites almost daily for the rest of his long life, but did not record them until 45 years later. Leopold Stokowski was already a famous conductor with many recordings to his name when he talked Disney into opening "Fantasia" to the sound of the "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor". Yo-Yo Ma, another outstanding cellist, played Bach at the memorial for his friend Steve Jobs of Apple, who felt a strong affinity with the composer. Interspersed among all these tales of glittering 20th-century musical figures are scènes from Bach's own personal and professional life.Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~Oscar Wilde