Mahler

So, sitting waiting to pick up someone, this appeared on the car radio. "Songs on the Death of Children". I remember first hearing it many years ago, and wondering at the temptation to fate it seemed, given that his own second child had just been born. Sure enough, his first child died a couple of years later. But of course, that was a time when infant mortality was much higher, and everyone would have known parents who had suffered a loss, even among the wealthy.

Morbid stuff. I'll find something uplifting to listen to tomorrow.