When you turn on classical music on the radio and it’s in the middle of a piece, you try to guess the composer and you try to articulate to yourself what’s the reasoning behind your guesses, so you become more in-tune with what you hear.
A few months ago, I got Prokofiev, and it made me so happy…
The piece had odd harmonies but it was obviously popular music-influenced with a bit of saxophone, so it reminded me of the Soviets trying to incorporate jazz, only it didn’t quite sound as angular and intellectual and self-distanced as Shostakovich, so I was thinking Prokofiev, by process of elimination.
And, I was right!
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