So our May concert will include one of the string symphonies of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, whose 300th birthday anniversary just passed us by earlier this month.

So you might be saying to yourself, “is he related to J.S.?” Such a question would have been the other way around in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century. Read on, Macduff, to discover more about the composer who was revered by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.