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Article: CZECH BIRTHRATE CAMPAIGN INVOKES BACH, BUT OFF-KEY AD FIRM USES POSTER DEPICTING 20-BOY FAMILY BUT COMPOSER HAD 9 GIRLS.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 3, 1997
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Byline: Peter Hillmore The Observer Scripps Howard News Service
LONDON -- He was a prolific maker of music - and babies - and now Johann Sebastian Bach is being held up as an example to encourage a nation to breed.
A poster campaign depicting the German composer and organist with 20 pre-pubescent boys, all in the nude, has been financed by an unnamed person in an attempt to boost the Czech Republic's flagging population growth.
The poster urges people to stop being cautious about birth control and take a leaf out of Bach's book. It makes a play on the Czech word ``bacha'' which means to watch out or be cautious.
Alongside his enormous ...