"Aha!"

The Communists, who have extradited a good many famed and foreign dead, were now serving a summons on Johann Sebastian Bach.

In Potsdam, one Dr. Ernst Meyer, professor of "music-sociology" in the east zone's Humboldt University, observed the 200th anniversary of Bach's death with a speech entitled "Bach and Social Cohesion." The title was barely out of his mouth when one listener piped up, "What has that to do with Bach?" When Dr. Meyer remarked that Thuringia-born Bach was nowhere honored as much as in the Soviet Union, another bellowed, "Aha! we knew this was coming." More than 100, who had come to hear Bach's music, walked out.

By last week, Potsdam's Communist Maerkische Volksstimme had expressed its outrage. One trouble: too many of the wrong people ("dusty figures from Potsdam's attic") had been present. "We hope," said the paper, "that in future those parts of the population will be invited that belong there: the working people who sincerely honor and understand the life and works of our great maestro."

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