TY - JOUR T1 - What Bach's music means to me JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 150 LP - 150 VL - 56 IS - 523 AU - Michael Lasserson Y1 - 2006/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/56/523/150.1.abstract N2 - Bach has been, and will always be, part of my life. It is something like a personal oxygen. I grew up in a musical household, in which Bach was always being played; my mother would be practising preludes and fugues, and my father would be practising some of the music for solo violin. As a child, I would fumble through the Bach pieces in the elementary piano books. At school, in the choir, I sang in the B minor Mass, with that huge striding Sanctus sending us out into the evening, shouting its theme. As a student, I met others with the … ER -