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In all my years of music and even my two semesters of music history in undergraduate, the only mention I ever heard of Mr. Respighi was when a student asked if she could do her term paper on him and the teacher said doing a paper on him was not recommended because most of the information regarding him was all in Italian.  In fact the first time I ever heard of Mr.Respighi was in Fantasia 2000.  His piece entitled The Pines of Rome was the music for the scene with all the flying whales.  Since I worked at the music library the first time I saw it I tried looking up other pieces by him and in fact found that he had composed a number of pieces regarding Rome.  I hadn’t listened to anything by him in quite a while when I stumbled upon this piece.  Like I said before I don’t really know much about Mr. Respighi, but nonetheless I really like this piece.  Especially the ending.  Simply beautiful.

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Yeah so maybe it’s not the most manly of post titles, but it’s still a beautiful piece.  (or in this case, excerpt from a Prokofiev piano piece.

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I believe this morning requires some Ratatat:

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I’ve always wondered why the most seemingly random music will pop into your head at the oddest times. I woke up with this tune playing on repeat this morning and as a remedy I thought I should find the actual song and listen to it. I should be grateful, though, that I didn’t get a terrible tune stuck in my head instead.  (I should note that in this version I found, I’m not too happy with the guitar.  Sounds like the guitar player isn’t quiet in tune)

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Enjoying some Beethoven op.109 performed by Mitsuko Uchida on this rainy afternoon. Fits the bill perfectly.

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