NPR | Brooklyn Rider's Nicholas Cords On Listening to Music to Experience Gratitude

NPR asked NEC faculty Nicholas Cords to recommend one thing that's helping him get through the days of isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.

"I've been holding Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Opus 132, front-of-mind these days. Beethoven found himself recovering from a life-threatening illness in 1825 when he composed the central movement...

Touchingly written in the margin of a sketch for this movement is the following note: 'Thank you for giving me back the strength to enjoy life.'"