Children's Hour of Dream

I'm not sure what triggered this memory but I thought about this last night and kept coming back to it today. I played this piece in band in my junior year of high school. The name is really apt, considering the scary, haunting side of children's thoughts at bedtime. I remember my band director describing it as "an aural night -terror; a child waking up in the middle of the night, fearful and crying out to parents, but asleep again once the parents come to his bedroom." Something like that, but more eloquent.

The more I listen to it, the more I enjoy it. It's very intellectual-- I know I'd enjoy it more if I knew more about music theory and Mingus, but I can still appreciate what this showcases. I wish I had a bigger musical vocabulary to be better at describing how I feel, so I'll just let the music speak for itself:




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Currently reading:
"Dead Man Walking" by Sister Helen Prejean
"Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs and Some Other Things That Aren't As Scary, Maybe, Depending On How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, A Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish So Maybe You Could Help Us Out" edited by Ted Thompson with Eli Horowitz

Recently viewed movies:
Matchstick Men (2003)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)