School shootings inspire Bacharach composition
At age 90, Burt Bacharach hasn’t lost faith in the power of music.
“Music softens the heart, makes you feel something if it’s good, brings in emotion that you might not have felt before,” he told The Associated Press. “It’s a very powerful thing if you’re able to do to it, if you have it in your heart to do something like that.” The songwriter has collaborated with fellow Grammy winner Rudy Perez on “Live to See Another Day,” a ballad inspired by the Parkland, Florida, massacre and other school shootings. Released Monday, the song was recorded with the Miami Symphony Orchestra and features the vocals of two Florida teens, Haven Star and Angie Green. Proceeds will be donated to the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation, an antigun violence organization based in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed 20 schoolchildren in 2012.