This gem popped up in a playlist from WCRB, a radio station in Boston that I've listened to for much of the time I've lived in DC. I don't remember how I first found WCRB, but it's my daily soundtrack because they play a good mix across multiple streaming options, and I can't work or read with music that has lyrics (I'll sing along).

A piece of classical music, contemporary or otherwise, has never moved me like this one did. I stopped working to concentrate on the audio, and then I searched for it online to listen again.

Brief backstory: it was released in 2002 by a composer whose grandfather served as Italy's first president following WWII. The song flows between melancholy and triumph, and my overall impression is that of hearing the sweep of a person's life, a kind of epic poem about a mundane existence – all in six minutes of piano.
 

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For all the new readers coming from CreativeMornings – welcome! – here's the August newsletter you might have missed + a note about this year's experiment.

 

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