Today’s selection of Beautiful Music in Difficult is Johann Sebastian Bach’s MAGNIFICAT. Today (3/22/20) is also the annual BACH BIRTHDAY BASH broadcast on Sunday Baroque, which I hope you will listen to on your public radio station. You can also hear it again all week using the online audio stream at www.SundayBaroque.org/listen starting on Monday, March 23. As a church musician, Bach was called upon to write a lot of music for church services and holidays. He composed his MAGNIFICAT when he worked at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig in 1723 for the Christmas celebration.