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25. An interesting story about that piece...

Back when I was in college, I was a member of the Musical Heritage Society. One month, they offered as their featured selection a recording of Pachelbel and Fasch pieces performed by the Paillard Chamber Orchestra. At this point, practically nobody had heard of Pachelbel, but I knew his choral work from having performed it in choir, so bought a copy. The record arrived the day before Thanksgiving, and the Canon in D was the first track on side one. I played it...then played it again, and again...then I played it for my girlfriend, and we listened to it several times over the long weekend. On Sunday, when most people I know were returning from visiting their families, I wound up going from room to room with the record, telling them "you've got to listen to this!"

I later found out that, when that same record was played on New York radio station WQXR, their switchboard was deluged with hundreds of calls from listeners wanting to know where they could buy that record...and that was the point when the Canon went from being unknown to one of the most famous Baroque pieces of all time.