(1685-1750) German composer. A master of counterpoint, his music epitomizes the Baroque polyphonic style. His orchestral music includes the six Brandenburg Concertos 1721, other concertos for keyboard instrument and violin, four orchestral suites, sonatas for various instruments, six violin partitas, and six unaccompanied cello suites. Bach’s keyboard music, for clavier and organ, his fugues, and his choral music are of equal importance. He also wrote chamber music and songs.
Born at Eisenach, Bach came from a distinguished musical family. At 15 he became a chorister at Lüneburg, and at 19 he was organist at Arnstadt. His appointments included positions at the courts of Weimar and Anhalt-Köthen, and from 1723 until his death he was musical director at St Thomas' choir school in Leipzig.
He married twice and had over 20 children (although several died in infancy). His second wife, Anna Magdalena Wülkens, was a soprano; she also worked for him when his sight failed in later years.
Bach’s sacred music includes 200 church cantatas; the Christmas and Easter oratorios 1734 and 1736; the two great Passions, of St John and St Matthew, first performed 1723 and 1729, and the Mass in B minor 1749. His keyboard music includes a collection of 48 preludes and fugues known as Das wohltemperierte Clavier/The Well-Tempered Clavier 1742, the Goldberg Variations 1742, and the Italian Concerto 1735. Of his organ music the finest examples are the chorale preludes. Two works written in his later years illustrate the principles and potential of his polyphonic art—Das Musikalische Opfer/The Musical Offering 1747 and Die Kunst der Fuge/The Art of Fugue, published posthumously 1751.

A native or inhabitant of the Bahamas.

Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort; Also called: Bahama Islands.
Country comprising a group of about 700 islands and about 2,400 uninhabited islets and cays in the Caribbean, 80 km/50 mi from the SE coast of Florida. They extend for about 1,223 km/760 mi from NW to SE, but only 22 of the islands are inhabited.
government
The Bahamas are an independent sovereign nation within the Commonwealth, with the British monarch as head of state and represented by an appointed, resident governor-general. The constitution, effective since independence 1973, provides for a two-chamber parliament with a Senate and House of Assembly. The governor general appoints a prime minister and cabinet drawn from and responsible to the legislature. The governor-general appoints 16 Senate members, 9 on the advice of the prime minister, 4 on the advice of the leader of the opposition, and 3 after consultation with the prime minister. The House of Assembly has 49 members, elected by universal suffrage. Parliament has a maximum life of five years and may be dissolved within that period.
history
The Bahamas were reached 1492 by Christopher Columbus, who first landed at San Salvador. The British established a permanent settlement 1656, and in 1670 the Bahamas were given to the duke of Albemarle as a proprietary colony. The islands were a pirate area in the early 18th century and reverted to the British crown 1717 (although they were disputed by the Carolina colony until 1787). During the American Revolution, Spanish forces captured the Bahamas 1782, but the islands were given back to Britain the following year.
independence
The Bahamas achieved internal self-government 1964, and the first elections for the national assembly on a full voting register were held 1967. The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), drawing its support mainly from voters of African origin, won the same number of seats as the European-dominated United Bahamian Party (UBP). Lynden Pindling became prime minister with support from outside his party. In the 1968 elections the PLP scored a resounding victory, repeated 1972, enabling Pindling to lead his country to full independence within the Commonwealth 1973.
Prime Minister Pindling
The 1977 elections resulted in an increased majority for the PLP. The main contestants in the 1982 elections were the Free National Movement (FNM, consisting of a number of factions that had split and reunited) and the PLP. Despite allegations of government complicity in drug trafficking, the PLP was again successful, and Pindling was unanimously endorsed as leader at a party convention 1984. The 1987 elections were won by the PLP, led by Pindling, but with a reduced majority. His time in office came to an end Aug 1992, when the FNM won 33 of the assembly's 49 seats and its leader Hubert Ingraham became prime minister.
unequal wealth
Whites make up only 10–15% of the population but control 90% of the the wealth of the country.

1. Follower of the god Bacchus, or a participant in his festival.
2. Drunken and riotous festival.
3. Pertaining to Bacchus, god of wine, and rites in his worship

1. A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.

Used of riotously drunken merrymaking; SYN. bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic.

1. Pertaining to the god Bacchus.
2. Pertaining to feasts and wine.
3. Pertaining to Bacchus and bacchanalia; drunken; jovial

ETYM Latin bacchans, -antis, p. pr. of bacchari to celebrate the festival of Bacchus.
1. A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus; SYN. bacchanal.
2. (Greek and Roman mythology) A priest or votary of Bacchus.
3. Priest or votary of Bacchus.

(Greek and Roman mythology) A priestess or votary of Bacchus.
A priestess or female follower of Bacchus.