
Fantasia 2021: 7 Pieces to Get You Started with Classical Music
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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Jupiter and the Galactic Storm
Jupiter is the only unabashedly joyous movement in the piece. It darts, moves seemingly in impossible directions and never stops eluding your grasp. I always find it a bit funny to see this piece performed with projections of each planet from NASA probes displayed behind the orchestra. There is certainly a contrast to hearing this happy and bouncy music while seeing these giant gaseous planet with a never-ending storm size of two or three Earths.
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