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     “The Nightwatch“ (1642) 

                  Rembrandt

                       _____

                                for Barbara, who dutifully 

                                      kicked me in the psyche

there is apparent discussion about whether

the BWV 1052 of Bach was first a keyboard 

or a violin, concerto, I’ve only known it as a 

keyboard concerto till now, when looking 

for it for a friend, I happened upon this 

recently published rendering of an event 

that took place at the Rijksmuseum in 

Amsterdam in front of the very 

“Nightwatch” of Rembrandt, historical  

epochs coming iconically together  

which is why, incidentally, I love Europe,

Disneyland for adults, where epochal

periods come together like fantasies,

tossing back at us their manifest, their

multifarious, and mythic glories  

what do you think, which came first, the

chicken or the egg,  the keyboard or the

violin

I think, however prejudicially, the 

keyboard, but what do I know  

enjoy either, they’re both riveting 

R ! chard

psst: note how the painted faces and the real

          faces in the violin version look alike,

          Rembrandt‘s genius