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18. I grew up on it, with my hippie piano-playing dad

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 11:24 PM

Jan 2015

Plenty of other stuff as well, from Delta blues to the Chick Cores Elektric Band, but always grounded in the masters..

This has been called the greatest piece of music ever written, in any style, anywhere, anytime. I may agree.

This performance happened a twenty minute train ride away, on a night I was off. I don't know if I'll ever get over missing it..

Contrapuntality is such a lost art..

Funny story - the orchestra premeired this while the ink was still wet on the pages.

Some guys wrote pieces out of sheer spite, just to show off.

And some others kept it simple, technically...just inhuman!

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