Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Symphony no. 1 in D major.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach  also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach.

C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's baroque style and the classical and romantic styles that followed it. His personal approach, an expressive and often turbulent one known as empfindsamer Stil or 'sensitive style', applied the principles of rhetoric and drama to musical structures. Bach's dynamism stands in deliberate contrast to the more mannered galant style also then in vogue.

To distinguish him from his brother Johann Christian, the "London Bach," who at this time was music master to the Queen of England, C. P. E. Bach was known as the "Berlin Bach" during his residence in that city, and later as the "Hamburg Bach" when he succeeded Telemann as Kapellmeister there. To his contemporaries, he was known simply as Emanuel.

Today, this lesser known Bach flew in my window, and I was thrilled to learn something new. Shouldn’t we all keep learning.

So today, with new things in front of me, I choose Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s “Symphony no. 1 in D major” as my, find something wonderful, litttle miracles, every tiny dream, song for a, go out there and get ‘em, goals are just dreams you make sure you can accomplish, find your guiding star, Thursday.