I once read a sniffy piece on Eric Satie in a musical encyclopaedia, that accused him of “faux-naivety passed off as simplicity.” And I didn’t understand that, truly, until listening to Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina today.
I once read a sniffy piece on Eric Satie in a musical encyclopaedia, that accused him of “faux-naivety passed off as simplicity.” And I didn’t understand that, truly, until listening to Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina today.