HELEN 7/10:
I hope everyone is still enjoying WTCI for the second time round — a different experiences with every iteration. I loved E major yesterday, and found e minor today a bit hard to focus.
I’m still mulling the idea, which occurred to me this week, that most of J. S. Bach’s modulations might be to closely related keys, and maybe Shostakovich’s aren’t. I don’t know if I have the spare mental space to look into this, but it would explain the largely easy-to-understand sounds resulting from Bach’s P&F’s, as opposed to many of Shostakovich’s.
GRACE 7/10: Still haven’t gotten back on the wagon since I got home (I, too, an experiencing jetlag) but once I get back to it I look forward to rejoining the conversation more thoroughly!
HELEN 7/11: We’re all pulling for you, Grace!