Only the beginning of endings
Composers will sometimes dress up these bits of aural clipart with rhythmic flair, but in most cases they stick to the dogma.
Pentatonic ethnicity
Can I ever unlearn this auditory bias?
From the (hollowed-out) new world
Within six days and 20 miles of each other, two symphony orchestras gave incomplete performances of Antonín Dvořák’s “From the New World.”
Progress!
I was listening to a symphony that just wasn’t doing it for me.
Struggling with ugliness
Barely any way into Brahms’ German Requiem come three diminished chords that almost sound like a mistake.
The purr of the crowd
It’s sensory overload after a year and a half of solitary listening. But it sure is nice to have the opportunity to be distracted in this way again.
The Green Danube
It’s one of those classical melodies everyone is familiar with even if they can’t name it.
Post-Looney Toons
When your listening to any given piece goes beyond its popculture touchstone, the surprises are that much more surprising.
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