8/24/2023 0 Comments Nocturne in b flat minor![]() Chopin is warm and dark and safe and sad to me, but it’s also the physical vibrations of that piano against my back.Īll that to say: I don’t approach Chopin objectively. I would sometimes lie beneath the keyboard by the pedals with my back against the piano as he played nocturnes, picturing that tortured, tubercular Delacroix painting ^ on the cover of Ron’s music. He played other things, but those are the ones I can still hear - and it’s Chopin that makes me feel five years old again. The soundtrack of my childhood came through my brother’s piano in three threads: West Side Story, Scott Joplin, and Chopin. ![]() (First in the Laney’s List series - a music professor chooses 36 pieces to introduce his 16-year-old daughter to classical music.)
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