Mar 222008
. . . a nurse in a hospital ward in New York regularly played Tabula Rasa for young men who were dying of AIDS, and in their last days they asked to hear it again and again. (Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise, p. 531)
I wish I had known this music when my friend Grant was dying of AIDS. He asked for some records and because he loved church music I gave him mostly Bach. Seems a bit rich to give a bloke a cantata called ‘Ich habe genug’ – ‘I’ve had enough’. But he had.
Arvo P