Ashurbanipal Bach

Ashur-

banipal Bach is a

student of Rock, a grand-

nephew of Johann Sebastian, 

who, when 

yet a young fellow, ar-

ranged for the 'cello his 

feint on the "Saint Matthew Passtian." 

Ashur-

banipal Bach keeps great 

time (like a clock: tock, tock, 

tick) so he's nicknamed 'Cartier.' 

Once, when 

op'ra was needed, folks' 

summons he heeded: his 

"Qarmen" recalls George Bizier.

 

Ashur-

banipal Bach channels 

Bartok, Beach, Bloch. Bach's "Toc-

cata for Glockenspiel"'s Grammy 

serves to 

put on the map a 'til-

now-unknown chap -- one An-

navarupa Rama Swammy.

 

Ashur-

banipal Bach I e-

lect not to mock nor to 

jeer but to merely take stock, 

through this 

partial parade, of the 

music he's made, boy and 

man: Ashurbanipal Bach.