If there is a soundtrack to traveling the Trans-Siberian railroad it must surely include Ravel’s ‘Bolero’. Its relentless minor key motif captures something of an exhausting traverse; the hypnotic percussion striving against featureless steppes and forests, and just so, the sturdy settlements buttressed against weather and loneliness. Our family, intrigued as we are by epic […]
Trans-Siberian: Rivers, Steppes – the Endless Steppes – And Sometimes Sorrow
If there is a soundtrack to traveling the Trans-Siberian railroad it must surely include Ravel’s ‘Bolero’. Its relentless minor key motif captures something of an exhausting traverse; the hypnotic percussion striving against featureless steppes and forests, and just so, the sturdy settlements buttressed against weather and loneliness. Our family, intrigued as we are by epic […]