Filmmaker Michael Lawrence tells me a field of wheat played Bach for Steve Jobs

Music-loving American filmmaker Michael Lawrence sent me a note this afternoon about a tribute to Steve Jobs he has put together, in which Jobs calls the computer the greatest tool ever devised by humans, "a bicycle for our minds."

Here is Lawrence's note to me, followed by the video.

Like so many people around the world, I have been thinking of Steve Jobs since his passing. The outpouring has been almost surreal. 

I could not have made BACH & friends without his computers and software.

In 1989, I filmed an interview with Steve for my Library of Congress film and what a special day that was.   I remember very fondly every minute of the time I spent with him.  I still have the NeXT coffee mug he gave me.

A few years back, I put up a clip from the interview on YouTube and it has been viewed over 400,000 times - 34,000 views just yesterday alone.  

I didn't know Steve Jobs loved Bach until Mike Hawley asked me to send Steve and his wife Laurene a copy of BACH & friends.  Mike shared that Steve was one of his closest personal friends.  I found this quote of Steve talking of Bach:

"I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden the wheat field was playing Bach. It was the most wonderful experience of my life up to that point. I felt like the conductor of this symphony with Bach coming through the wheat field.”  Quote from "Return to the Little Kingdom: How Apple and Steve Jobs Changed the World" by Michael Moritz