his talents. bach was not great just because he was great. these gifts had been given to him. i think he was trying to draw more attention to god than to bach, himself, the person. and so i put that down on the bottom of my music, not to slap anyone in the face with it, but to remind myself as much as anything that this is not mine, this is something that i believe that the lord has given. it’s not something for me to hold in anybody’s face and say “look what i did” because, honestly, as a composer, when you’re looking at a blank piece of staff 