I feel like such a spammer for posting again so soon, but…. (Suzanne)

When I first got here, I had to take a musicianship test for aural studies tutorial placement. One of the questions was an aural analysis of a recording of a piece of music.

Today I was listening to a Philip Glass CD. (Philip Glass is a contemporary American composer who was one of the main driving forces behind the minimalist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. He’s also a very successful film composer — he did the soundtrack for The Hours and won his second Academy Award for it.)

Guess what I heard on the CD?

Yep. The very same piece I had to write an analysis of in my first week here. It’s the Evening Song from Glass’ second opera Satyagraha, which is about the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

I love it when I recognise music from random places.