Top 3 Inspirational-Part 1
Friday, May 29th, 2009I just woke up with this idea — all because I had a song running through my brain. At first it was to give my own imaginary award for the Top 3 Inspirational songs or pieces of music of my own life.
Bill Haley and the Comets
It rapidly expanded to the following: Here they are by category.
TOP 3 CLASSICAL
1. Third Symphony, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs by Henryk Górecki
Górecki said of this, “Perhaps people find something they need in this piece of music […] somehow I hit the right note, something they were missing. Something somewhere had been lost to them. I feel that I instinctively knew what they needed.”
Why this first? Because with it, I was inspired to fall in love with my wife. An easy pick.
2. Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) by Igor Stravinsky
Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein said of one passage, “That page is sixty years old, but it’s never been topped for sophisticated handling of primitive rhythms…”, and of the work as a whole, “…it’s also got the best dissonances anyone ever thought up, and the best asymmetries and polytonalities and polyrhythms and whatever else you care to name.”
