Repinionation
Some pieces of music go through climactic restructurings in appreciability as time passes. When first starting out in classical music, I was lead up and in via the Saint-Saens piano concerto number two. It was the first movement of that piece which suddenly, surprisingly presented itself open to me. Before too many cycles of listening and slapping the skip-back button on the stereo, the third movement also revealed itself in a tantalizingly delicious (yeah, I know that’s a little weird of a choice of words but my head is a bit sleep fuzzy) light.
However, the 2nd movement sounded frickin’ dumb.
Even after I had worked my way through the entire set of all 5 SS piano concertos I disliked that 2nd movement. It sounded like a bunch of pixies having a tea party and giggling about cupcakes or something. I remember coming across a comment (during my frequent googlings for people’s opinions on all the newly discovered music) by someone who stated that although they previously hated that movement, they had grown to love it. I also remember being pretty sure that probably was not going to personally be the case.
You can probably already be sure of what is getting written here next: I have grown to enjoy that movement.
Here it is (post initial mumblings):
Ones perceptions taking such a u-turn can be quite a shock to the past and future yous. It doesn’t sound like pixies anymore. Well, almost entirely not. Often the things which initially sounded so appealing fade away, and the previously faded things move into the focus. The depth of field pendulums.
And then again, some things are perennially the epitome of genius:
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