RIP 2023: Reflections on Losses

I don’t like to read obits. As I get older, more and more of the names are familiar - or even people whose paths I’ve crossed. In looking through the roundup of prominent deaths in 2023, two stood out for me. One was Burt Bacharach. I never met the composer but I literally bumped into him at a mid-Manhattan rehearsal studio in the mid-1970.