J.S Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow

“CBC’s Tom Allen and friends share a moving and uplifting story in the chamber musical,  J.S. Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow.

Johann Sebastian Bach is usually seen as the wise, old man of Western Music, but he didn’t begin his working life that way. At 18, and in his first job as an organist, still barely beginning life as a composer but already a spectacular performer, the young genius got into such trouble that the only thing he could do was to walk away. “