Stay classy, GRB

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Admittedly, the conductor looks like he's imitating Soupy Sales, but he takes the last movement of Prokofiev's 1st symphony at a breakneck pace.

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Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," made famous by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Second and third movements from Mendelssohn's 5th symphony, the Reformation Symphony.

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Back Fugue in E Flat Major is my favorite fugue, because it is so easy to hear the voices come in. There is something about the mechanics of fitting a fugue together that just fascinates me. It's mind boggling. Here you can see what I mean, the colors indicate the different voices. What you notice is that each voice is the same simple theme, and as they get entangled with each other they morph into something complex.

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And here it is played by a person:

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[Michael]

That's really interesting, jim.

[stlouie_lipp]

yeah, that's really cool.

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