Segunda-feira 20 Out 2008, 4h:13
i very fortunately happened to stumble upon a job at the only classical record store in portland, the classical millenium (which is that tiny store next to the music millenium on east burnside and 32nd), and am just about ready to renounce all music other than classical, with the exceptions of django reinhardt, leonard cohen, and perhaps animal collective.
the very best part of it all, of course, is exactly how educating it has been and will continue to be. already, i've found pieces (Sonata in B-Flat Major, D. 960 (Op. Posth.): Andante sostenuto) and composers (osvaldo golijov) that have moved me in ways that i haven't been moved in in a very, very long time.
osvaldo golijov, for instance, is pure genius. after hearing the portland symphony play his Last Round for double string quartets and double bass - I. Movido, urgente last night, i've been unable to get the rhythm out of my head, the sonority, the magnetism (!) of it. i don't think i've ever heard a more darkly seductive piece in my entire life. i honestly don't know if i'll be able to stop listening to it tonight.
(oh! in inaccordance to what i just said, i've also very recently fallen in love with angels of light. i was listening to The Angels of Light Sing 'Other People' in jackpot records the other day and almost began crying right there in the store after hearing to live through someone and michael's white hands. oh, and most certainly jandek. i've been listening to his ready for the house on vinyl quite a bit recently.)
so i suppose there is music other than classical that i am enjoying, but i'm more just coming to terms with the fact that, perhaps due to my upbringing, classical (and not all, of course; i still can't stand philip glass or aaron copland) is capable of touching certain chords within me that nothing else can.