Chris DeBlasio's song "Walt Whitman in 1989" deals with, for 10 points, what event that inspired the works in the "Quilt Songbook"?
An art song about this event set a text that ends by noting "I'll put him myself / on one of your strong, flat boats / and we'll sail together all the way / through evening." An orchestral work whose third movement chaconne was based on taped recordings of piano and cello co-improvisations was inspired by this event; that work, which begins and ends with an open string A natural, features offstage piano quotes of Isaac Albeniz's Tango and includes a second movement tarantella that ends with an emulated scream of insanity. A William Parker-led classical music response to this event included Ned Rorem's song "A Dream of Nightingales," and was conceived by Parker as ever-growing and never-ending. The movements "Giulio's Song" and an opening "Apologue" are part of the First Symphony of John Corigliano, which was inspired by this event. Chris DeBlasio's song "Walt Whitman in 1989" deals with, for 10 points, what event that inspired the works in the "Quilt Songbook"?
An art song about this event set a text that ends by noting "I'll put him myself / on one of your strong, flat boats / and we'll sail together all the way / through evening."
AIDS epidemic [or HIV epidemic; accept clear equivalents in place of epidemic]