one of the MANY things I appreciate about Los Angeles’ classical radio station KUSC, is that they play good stuff outside of ready narratives

from Mendelssohn and Hoffmeister to the non-austere non-modernist postwar composers

they make me realize how the JRPG soundtracks I grew up with fit into the Western tradition (they very much do!) even… wait

it’s possible this is just a Germano-Japanese styistic progression rather than the Anglo-American I’m used to but

THEY PLAY MUSIC SO WELL I WANT TO STUDY THE COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FORM, C'MON, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT