When a pianist arrives one early morning at a Manhattan recording studio, ready to record J.S. Bach's "The Art of the Fugue," he finds no one there except an old homeless black man sitting by the window. Thus starts a magical odyssey in pursuit of a lost Bach manuscript, taking him back two and a half centuries to Bach's apartment in Leipzig, to a slaver ship off the Guinea Coast of west Africa, and to Patton's 3rd Army during WWII. Along the way he'll meet a colorful cast of characters, a Victorian grave robber, a Nazi manuscript hunter, an ex-Baader-Meinhof terrorist, and the greatest...
When a pianist arrives one early morning at a Manhattan recording studio, ready to record J.S. Bach's "The Art of the Fugue," he finds no one there ex...
