Writing Playlists: Scott Stevens's "Not Your Bedtime Classical Music"

Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3 [Mishima]: Blood Oath
Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture “Leonore No. 3” Op.72b
London Suite: 1. Tarantelle “Covent Garden”
Frederic Chopin: Ballade No. 1, Op. 23 in G Minor
Dmitri Shostakovich: The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a: Galop
Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major, Op. 10: III Finale 
Aram Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite: Mazurka

This isn’t a prefabricated Spotify Quiet Ambient Classical playlist for studying. This music gives itself up for your full attention, and it will not stop strumming its strings until you listen up. In this playlist, enjoy composers from Johannes Brahms (yes, the one with the lullaby. Far from a lullaby here,) to the modern Philip Glass, urging you to sign a blood oath with classical music a little more exciting than what you may be used to. 

About the Author

SCOTT STEVENS is a student poet at Menlo School -- a senior, but he might as well be a freshman. Though he does love a well-structured curriculum, because he raises his hand too much à la Hermione Granger, he'd rather be with his friends outside enjoying the drought. In addition to writing poetry and short stories, he translates works from the Japanese, and is taking aim at Mandarin in school.

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