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-Buxtehude, Passacaglia: music that seems to listen to itself
When I felt bad I asked Pistorius to play Buxtehude’s passacaglia. Then I would sit in the dusk-filled church completely involved in this unusually intimate, self- absorbed music, music that seemed to listen to itself, that comforted me each time, prepared me more and more to heed my own inner voices.
At times we stayed even after the music had ceased: we watched the weak light filter through the high, sharply arched windows and lose itself in the church.