Contrasting Periods :: King of the (Composer) Hill :: March

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Filed Under Music on Monday, March 3rd 2008

CNN released a story today about an anthropologist who reconstructed Bach’s face from a copper casting of his skull. I think it’s pretty interesting to see what he might have looked like, but to be honest, it’s a bit disappointing to me.

For some reason, I have a hard time reconciling the fact that the composer of the “The Musical Offering” looks a bit like Hank Hill’s father from “King of the Hill.”

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Michael Monroe on Wednesday March 5, 2008 at 9:19 pm

looks a bit like? They’re almost identical. It’s uncanny. This is quite a discovery. Mr. Hill’s beer gut is probably on target as well.

Mark Connor on Thursday March 6, 2008 at 1:35 am

A bit understated, I agree. Scary, isn’t it?

Wes F. in Cincinnati on Thursday March 6, 2008 at 10:09 pm

If JSB is Cotton Hill, you gotta wonder if J.C.F. Bach ever listened to W.F.E. Bach’s early attempts at composition and muttered to himself “That boy ain’t right.”