Songwriter extraordinaire Burt Bacharach died in 2023 at the age of 94. In a recent New York Times interview of Herb Alpert, the musician extraordinaire looked back to 2021 when Bacharach called. He was going into the hospital to have fluid drained from his lungs, but in between shots and draining his plan was to study some musical arrangements sent to him by a younger musician.
Bacharach worked until he died, but the work didn’t kill him. It arguably animated his every breath. He was doing what he couldn’t not do.
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