The Great Myra Hess

Myra Hess (18901965) plays her very famous arrangement of Bach s Chorale Jesu, Joy of Man s Desiring. Her favourite anecdote relating to Jesu, Joy concerned a British soldier who whistled it on a train during the war. Are you interested in Bach , the soldier was asked by a journalist. No, he answered. But you are whistling a Bach composition, the newsman insisted. That s no Bach, he replied indignantly. That s Myra (From Marian McKenna s Myra Hess A Portrait )