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[dsavitsk]

 

[dsavitsk]

My favorite version of my favorite song by REM. I saw this concert and the extra drumstick on the chair was really effective live

 

Edited Tuesday at 06:43 AM by dsavitsk

[robm321]

 

 

[Dusty Chalk]

A little late for Ravel's 150th, but this was my great (ahem) gateway to Ravel's orchestrating genius.  I heard his orchestration before I heard Mussorgsky's solo piano version, and have since fallen in love with his genius.  Even from his treatment of the opening Promenade, there's a bit more breadth, a bit more gravitas, a bit more there there.  Not afraid to solo instruments, or interleave solo instruments against a delicate backdrop of small subsets of the orchestra, it is a masterpiece of restraint.  cf. "The Old Castle" movement

All the better to contrast the bombast.  cf. "The Great Gates of Kiev" movement

[blessingx]