Right now, I'm finishing up a painful paper about Shakespeare's representation of gender within As You Like It, and as such I'm trying to find some good study music. I began listening to some Shostakovich fugues, which were quite conducive to efficient writing. Then I found this amazing album of Shostakovich's jazz suites and now I'm on fire. Not literally, obviously, but this essay is finally coming together.
This specific piece always reminds me of the Nintendo 64 game Mission Impossible. There was a level on that game where you had to infiltrate this Russian palace by finding the sheet music for this song. When the pianist began to play the song, it distracted the ambassador you had to sneak past or something like that. Also, more recently, it makes me think of the end of Eyes Wide Shut, but that's a completely different can of worms that we won't open today.
In the spirit of college and paper-writing and gray rainy weather (and quite frankly, because I don't have time to format/type up anything cool today), here are some study tunes, in case you too are suffering through the uptown problem of surviving finals and the burden of receiving a fine education
- "Waltz No. 2" from The Suite for Variety Orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich
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