Little has been said or heard of the former premier for months and yet, because he clings to life, there have been no formal ceremonies to mark his passing.
That step was a response to Dundee United opposing the Ibrox club's application to the Scottish Premier League months earlier.
His A Sea Symphony premiered two months later in Leeds, and he was soon well on the way to composing his second, the London, as well as embarking on his first opera, Hugh the Drover, and the Five Mystical Songs.
A ballet about the famous Soviet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who defected to the West has premiered - five months later than planned.
The first theatrical trailer premiered three months later.
Spinoff "Joey," which premiered four months after the "Friends" finale, delivered consistently diminishing returns.
Developed during live performances, an early version of the suite was premiered several months before studio recording began; new material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London.
Beating director James Cameron to the punch, he wrote a 13-minute tone poem about the sinking of the Titanic that was premiered several months before the movie debuted in late 1997.
The work premiered four months ago, and on Friday it reunited most of the original cast: Blaine Hoven, Calvin Royal III, Gabe Stone Shayer, Jeffrey Cirio and the high-flying Daniil Simkin besides those already mentioned.
Tellingly, the piece that premiered the month Bausch died of cancer, based on the Chilean city of Santiago, has the most dance and the most joy of the three productions in the series so far, despite the shadow of Chile's past hovering over it in oblique references to "the disappeared".
Desperado, her breakout movie, premiered a month later.
