#OBTChallenge Day 2

In case you didn’t see yesterday’s post, my new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” every day, in the spirit of lighting a candle when things seem dark. Today’s post features the music of Impressionist composer Claude Debussy.

This is my recording of the first movement of Debussy’s suite Estampes, which literally means wood-carvings, but we can think of it as the stamps we put on mail. Stamps from places around the world.

The first movement is called “Pagodes” – Pagodas – and is meant to take you on a trip to the East. In this piece, you’ll hear Debussy making the piano sound like chimes and gongs, and playing around with dissonant harmony to create beautiful washes of sound. It’s incredibly evocative, and also extremely fun to play.

Please enjoy and visit back tomorrow, and meanwhile, think about posting your own bright thing somewhere on social media today. It could be a photo, a drawing, a poem, some music: anything that makes you smile and puts some light out in the world. (If you post it on Twitter, you can tag me at @kfaatz925, and use the hashtag #OBTChallenge.)