Things I had never guessed the missus and I would do together New Year’s Eve:
- Listen to bits of Shostakovich’s film scores to Hamlet and Alone.
- I’d read “Annabel Lee” to her.
The Poe is not particularly holiday fare (what of Poe’s is?) but then, this is partly why (to borrow a line from Kate Hepburn in The Lion in Winter) I should have been a great fool not to love her.
The resolution I slouched into is, to listen to something I’ve never heard before, each day of January.
Yesterday: Tchaikovsky’s Concert Fantasy for piano and orchestra, Op.56, and two “juvenile” string quartets by Rakhmaninov.
To-day: Shostakovich’s complete score to New Babylon, and Rakhmaninov’s The Rock, Op.7 – another early work, come to think of it.
Thinking bits of both the Organ Sonata and Annabel Lee to-day, must make sure to scribble some actual measures, to remain in compliance.
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