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Great stuff I used to have this one on 78 RPM. Never thought I'd find it again! Thanks, Youtube!

I certainly understand it. For one thing, the spaces between the notes are equally as important as the notes themselves. They are like the artist Robert Rauschenberg's 'white writing'. I don't enjoy anything else by Cage, but I find these pieces very meditative. You know, sir, I don't underst...

Scriabin makes me hungry to feel rooted in the earth again. After Scriabin I always have to play Kodaly or Villa Lobos to get my health back.

My favorite chord progressions begin at 4.36 and continue for almost a whole minute! Then, after that, the ending piles beauty on beauty until this listener, at least, is drunk with bliss. Happiness added to happines! The only music comparable I know of is the ending of Scriabin's Piano Concert...

It's the ending of Satie's The Adventures of Mercury. Not one of his best.

Most of you are too young to remember the show "You Are There," narrated by Walter Cronkite. This was the theme music. It is my favorite fanfare. It is also included in Copland's Third Symphony.

@cubanbach Me too - every time.

Peggy Lee in a dress singing 'Fever' is a lot hotter than Christina Aguilera in her underwear singing it.

@dbryant4 A delightful late Impressionist, and arguably the best orchestrator of the last century.

@flashfolds Same here all around. The year, my age, the music, my feelings. All the same. The only difference is I heard it through headphones in my high school library, where I was typing index cards for the librarian's classical record collection, which he was donating to the school. Whar mu...

@kkapur111 Too slow, not vigorous enough. Plays the motifs in #1 feebly. Try Bernstein instead.