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Bach's Mind-Blowing Goldberg Variations

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These days, if you have a tough time falling asleep, you might grab yourself a melatonin, turn in early and hope for the best. But a few hundred years ago, a fellow by the name of Johann Goldberg got a musical presciption from a guy named Bach to help him rest. That's how the legend goes anyway, and Peter's sticking to it with Johann Sebastian Bach's astonishing Goldberg Variations.

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