Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe (Jesus gathered the Twelve to Himself), BWV 22, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, written for the last Sunday before Lent. He composed it as an audition piece for the position of director of church music in Leipzig, and first performed it in a church service there at St. Thomas (pictured) on 7 February 1723. The work begins with a scene from the Gospels in which Jesus predicts his suffering in Jerusalem. The unknown poet of the cantata text took the scene as a starting point for reflections in which the contemporary Christian takes the place of the disciples who do not understand what Jesus is telling them. The closing chorale is a stanza from Elisabeth Cruciger's "Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn". The work, structured in five movements, shows that Bach had mastered the composition of a dramatic scene, an expressive aria with obbligato oboe, a recitative with strings, an exuberant dance, and a chorale in the style of Johann Kuhnau, his predecessor in Leipzig. According to the Bach scholar Richard D. P. Jones, elements such as a "frame of biblical text and chorale around the operatic forms of aria and recitative" became standards for Bach's Leipzig cantatas and even his Passions.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

457:

Leo I (pictured on solidus) was crowned Byzantine emperor, and went on to rule for nearly 20 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_I_the_Thracian

1795:

The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting the ability of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to sue U.S. states in federal courts, was ratified in order to overrule the Supreme Court decision in Chisholm v. Georgia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

1907:

More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March, the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, seeking women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_(Suffragists)

1940:

Walt Disney's Pinocchio, the first animated motion picture to win a competitive Academy Award, was released to theaters by RKO Pictures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio_(1940_film)

1995:

Ramzi Yousef, one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzi_Yousef

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

tacit: 1. Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit: disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions ("Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary", ISBN 9287155798). 2. (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tacit

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.   --Charles Dickens https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens