“When I got to the rehearsal, I didn’t hear a note of what they were doing,” Mr. Corigliano recalled in a recent interview. We’re going to die.”AIDS colored Mr. Corigliano’s life for much of that decade, and after. It was the classical music world’s most high-profile response to the crisis up to that point. “I would be speaking to Sheldon on the phone, and he was so full of life,” Mr. Corigliano said. “But then I’d get off the phone and go back to writing his memorial.”

Source: New York Times May 24, 2019 16:50 UTC