Use of Music Therapy For Surgical Recovery
According to Britain's The Daily Telegraph, Seivewright underwent a quadruple-bypass operation in 2000, and used a work by Johann Sebastian Bach for purposes of music therapy. The Telegraph reported that Seivewright
- "was determined that if he didn't wake up, the last music he listened to would be the 'greatest music ever written': the opening orchestral movement of Bach's St Matthew Passion."
(The opening movement "Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen," actually a chorus with orchestra, is evidently meant.) However, the operation was successful, and though Seivewright attributed this to his surgeon, the Telegraph commented that "Bach's music floating around in his subconscious was certainly a contributory factor."
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