party-trolling the people upstairs with mahler’s 8th and bruckner’s 4th
thats what you get for throwing a party on a Tuesday night
This is definitely something I would do.
Shostakovich Symphony No. 7: Mvt. I
Excellent essay writing music.
Finally getting down to penning my personal statements for the school of engineering applications and I realized how much I’ve missed writing. I am a fine writer and I would trade an engineering assignment for a long essay any day.
Urban Requiem by Michael Colgrass and Maslanka Symphony No. 4 next year. Yes. Another good year for the saxophone quartet.
Summer is literally 2 days away. I cannot wait start serious weight training again, to make a ton of money working outside, to drive around at 3 a.m. after parties, flying through backroads, windows down at 90mph blasting Strauss waltzes, to sleep when I want, to read what I want, to write and make music when I want, to have maximum mobility and minimum responsibility, to be recklessly young. This is what summer should always bring. Bring it on Mech of Materials.
How to interpret eight fortes? I think maybe I should hurl my whole body at the piano as violently as possible and hope for the best. They would find my bloody corpse weeks later amid the moldy coffee cups, odiferous testament to my devotion to the composer’s intent. How would eight be different from seven? Both must be so searingly loud as to be painful, a distinction between degrees of agony: if seven fortes is like being disemboweled by a wolf, then eight is like being disemboweled by a bear.
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Jeremy Denk, on Ligeti’s instructions to play eight fortes in Automne a Varsovie. (via nprfreshair)
Fair enough
