Give Bach a break !

I just downloaded and began to listen to "12 Ordinary Men" by John MacArthur from my library's (Tampa Bay Library Consortium) internet audiobook service (using Overdrive). I listened to the musical introduction to the piece (Bach's Musical Offering) and was astonished to hear it rudely interrupted without acknowledgement or identification, as the narrator of the audobook took over and announced the title, copyrights, etc.of the audiobook.

I don't know if this was on your recording of this audiobook, or had something to do with Overdrive's adaptation.

In either case, a wonderful piece of music is treated like dirt, with no respect given to it or to Bach, its composer, or to its performer.

If you are going to use a piece of music like this to introduce an audiobook that you are producing, you should give credit to the composer, as well as the performer, and have the courtesy to edit it so that it sounds cared for, has a pleasant transition into the speech of the audiobook, and, in this case, you should not use a performance that is probably copyrighted. It sounds to me like the version done by Davitt Moroney and John Holloway, et al. on Harmonia Mundi.. .

Bob Scott