“Gamelan music, Debussy wrote, ‘contained all gradations, even some that we no longer know how to name, so that tonic and dominant were nothing more than empty phantoms of use to clever little children.’”
The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
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“Prokofiev’s first ‘official’ Soviet work, the dance epic Romeo and Juliet, showed him at his optimistic peak. In his autobiography, he identified five main lines in his writing: the classical, the modern, the motoric, the lyric, and the grotesque. In Romeo these modes find equilibrium, with the lyric at the center.”
-Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise
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Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights - The London Philharmonic
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