Jethro Tull performing “Bourée” for French Television in 1969 “Bourée” is an instrumental and a flute-based adaptation of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Bourrée”. The Bach version was written for lute, and is his fifth movement of the Suite in E minor for Lute. Also known as “Aufs Lautenwercke” (works for the Lute), Bach wrote the piece in the early 1700s. In an interview, Ian Anderson explained why he decided to adapt the Bach composition. He said: “I got to the point where I was playing the flute every night on stage in the early part of ‘68, and so by the end of the year, I was casting around for an instrumental piece as a successor to the Roland Kirk piece, ‘Serenade to a Cuckoo,’ which I’d been playing most of 1968. I wanted something that had a syncopated jazzy feel, but a melody that wasn’t associated with the jazz world or the blues world. And ‘Bourée’ was a little bit of music that came to me through the floorboards of my bedsitter in London, because there was a media student in the room below who kept playing over and over again this refrain of the Bach tune “Bourée.” He played it on classical guitar, but he only ever got the one bit, he never progressed beyond that basic thing. So I kept hearing that over and over and over and over again, and decided that I would try to use that little tune some way as a starting point for an instrumental piece. And Martin Barre, who literally at that point in January ‘69 was just kind of auditioning to join the band, said, ‘Oh, I know that. I think I’ve got the sheet music somewhere for Bach’s ‘Bourée.’’ So it was something we could fairly readily embark upon as a variation on a classical piece of music.”

The #Giants and #Browns currently lead their divisions and are a combined 9-4-1, one year after those teams finished a combined 9-25. Their head coaches? John Harbaugh and Todd Monken, the head coach and offensive coordinator the #Ravens let go after last season.

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John Harbaugh took over a last-place Giants team that had endured double-digit loss totals in eight of the past nine seasons. Now they’re first in the NFC East and have matched their win total from last season. Despite losing their starting QB, sack leader and leading tackler to injuries. Coaching is important.

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Harbaugh called this a "pivotal" game. Huge difference between 4-2-1 and 3-3-1 entering the bye. Harbaugh called the two division games in five days coming out of the bye — at Philly, vs. Washington — "the two most important games of the season." He said those games will set the direction for the rest of the season. "We're going to be in this thing until the end now."

The #Giants played the #Texans today without their Week 1 starting ... QB (Jaxson Dart) C (John Michael Schmitz) EDGE (Brian Burns) MLB (Tremaine Edmunds) CB (Greg Newsome) S (Jevon Holland) Their two offensive tackles (Andrew Thomas, Jermaine Eluemunor) are playing hurt. They started their third quarterback of the season (JJ McCarthy). They beat Houston as 10.5-point underdogs. Think Eluemunor said it best: "It says a lot about the players, but it says even more about the coaches. Having someone like Coach (John) Harbaugh who instills confidence in you 24/7. "We had a tough meeting after the Saints game, but for everyone to come back, bounce back from that take it on the shoulder, come out here this week, and play the way we did, it was huge."

CLASS ACT: #Giants quarterback Jameis Winston went crazy celebrating J.J. McCarthy after New York’s game-winning touchdown. Despite being benched for McCarthy, Winston was still there supporting his teammate. This is what a great teammate looks like❤️