For three years of his undergraduate career, Eric Altschuler, M.D. met with Stephen Jay Gould one hour per week for an independent study. Their subject: Bach. Altschuler, author of "Bachanalia: The Essential Listener's Guide to Bach's 'Well-Tempered Clavier,'" remembers his meetings with the famed paleontologist. (Bach's Fugue No. 20 in A Minor from Volume 1 of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" is played here by Glenn Gould [CBS Masterworks].)
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