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Colorado Public Radio today broadcast the first sacred music I'd ever
heard on their station.

For their "Bachs Lunch" feature, they had "Christmas Music by J. S. Bach."
They began with the opening chorus from the secular cantata "Toenet, Ihr
Pauken!" which was either adapted from or for (depending on what Great
Expert you believe) the first cantata of the Christmas Oratorio.

I called the station and talked to the DJ.  "That's the secular version,"
I explained.  "It's got almost the same music, but those words have nothing
to do with Christmas."

"How interesting," he said, which is 80's-90's-speak for "please fuck off,
I don't need a dipshit smartarse like you giving me grief."  "It was on
a Christmas album, you see."

Then he played excerpts from the first cantata of the Christmas Oratorio,
starting with the sacred version of what he'd just played.

Then he played "Sheep may safely graze," which is from another secular
cantata having nothing to do with Christmas.  I didn't call back.

Mark., I know that none of you give a flying fuck about this, but I am
living in a cultural wasteland full of pretentious twits who think that
they're cultured
gooley@netcom.com