Music Director James Gaffigan looks back on music history and traces forgotten arcs of connection. From Leipzig’s favourite son, Johann Sebastian Bach, to one of East Germany’s most important composers, Ruth Zechlin, whose Polyphony forms the second part of her Music to Bach. And from Leipzig-born Richard Wagner to East Germany’s Siegfried Matthus—two pioneers of music theatre who were each unparalleled in their times. When I think of eastern Germany, I think of music!