Words go past my eyes all day

[bunrab]

and now they go past yours via Twitter:

• 18:36 current reading: big stack o' this week's magazines. current listening: radio is playing something by Khatchaturian. #
• 18:38 I haven't quite identified what yet. but it's most assuredly KHATCHATURIAN - unmistakeable chords #
• 18:39 aha. Spartacus ballet #

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Comments

[crustycurmudgeo.livejournal.com]

About the only work of his I have any chance of recognizing is the 'Saber Dance'. Definitely need more exposure to classical.

[(Anonymous)]

Khatchaturian uses unique chords; once you've listened to a bunch of his stuff, it becomes unmistakeable. The 20th century Russians are an interesting lot to listen to; catch Prokofiev's film scores, Khatchaturian's ballets, and Shostakovich's overtures. Compare Tschaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet ballet music to Prokofiev's.