Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness Into an Extraordinary Vision for Life

by Sanford D. Greenberg

For one thing, we agreed on the beauty of the “Kol Nidre,” the poignant Ashkenazic prayer sung on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Perhaps, we once brainstormed, we could take the best of Jewish music, such as the “Kol Nidre,” which Max Bruch had made world famous in his variations for cello, meld it with the best of Christian music—Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor—and produce a transcendent sound.