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Saturday, July 14, 2018

Tradeoff

I've gotten into the habit of listening to Sibelius symphonies while I'm grading -- so soothing, yet weirdly ruminative. Anyway, now I think of grading whenever I hear Sibelius and cannot enjoy his music for the queasy aggravated associations it gives me -- and yet I find I can almost enjoy grading so long as Sibelius is rumbling away softly in the background while I am doing it. An odd and unexpected tradeoff...

2 comments:

jollyspaniard said...

I'll give him a try. I've been going through a Morricone phase but it's not been conducive to getting work done.

Dale Carrico said...

Symphonies 6 and 7 are my favorites personally, each one is rather unexpectedly different from the others.