[Ed. note- this is being reposted as it was never properly open for comments]

Arthur has put me on to Chopin’s Nocturnes, and at the moment I’m feeling them pretty hard. Chopin has always been one of my favorite composers, and his Ballade No. 4 in Fm might be my favorite piece of classical music ever. Perhaps I shall make a t-shirt to proclaim my allegiance; maybe something like “The Fighting Polish”, if I can find a picture of Mr. C in a properly pugilistic stance, and then I’ll put “Punks jump up to get diminished” on the back (I coulda been a great music nerd if only I was any good at playing).

But I digress. I’m sitting here thinking about what ‘classical’ really means, because navel-gazing is the most appropriate activity when riding the Metro North, or at least it beats yakking on a cell phone.
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evan :: Aug.24.2003 :: Notions :: No Comments »