Maybe I’m in a melancholy mood, but I could listen to this all day. I think I just might! Click here to listen to today’s work.
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Maybe I’m in a melancholy mood, but I could listen to this all day. I think I just might! Click here to listen to today’s work.
So Reich uses old tricks from the “classical playbook”.
Bring on the oboe!
I’m visualizing a large glass of red wine…
Clara’s plate was more than full, wow girl.
What do you call a modern artist working in an ancient art form?
The enduring nature of music is stunning. We’re listening to something that people in the 1600s enjoyed.
Yep. It’s a Poulenc kind of day. More, please…
This is considered a one-hit-wonder. What other one-hit wonders do you love?
Interesting to think about music suspensions and the mind wanting sounds to resolve.