A Conference on Narrative Journalism, December 2 and 3 Vol. Everybody gets birthday parties.
Important people get posthumous birthday parties.
Boston University will pay Johann Sebastian Bach such a tribute December 3 through 6 with a series of concerts at the Tsai Performance Center. He died in 1750. We musicians just jump on any of these big anniversaries, because it's an opportunity to do a whole lot of Bach's music at once. Bach was a prolific composer all his life, and a four-concert series that attempted to represent his oeuvre would be elliptical at best. He really went wild with instrumental music.