The Music Nearly Lost to AIDS - The New York Times

The Music Nearly Lost to AIDS  The New York Times

What the composer John Corigliano remembers most about the AIDS crisis is the look of horror in his friends’ faces when they received their diagnoses. “Everyone had fear,” he said in a recent interview. “You would be watching friends die, and wondering if you were next. And musicians were affected enormously.” Mr. Corigliano wrote his Symphony No. 1 in tribute to those who were lost to AIDS. The New York Philharmonic is performing the work, which had its premiere in 1990, on Saturday, as part of its season-ending series “Music of Conscience.” Later that evening, the Philharmonic will presen...