Waltzing Into Aram Khachaturian’s “Masquerade” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Waltzing Into Aram Khachaturian’s “Masquerade” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

No piece of classical music grips my ballet-dancer’s imagination like Aram Khachaturian’s “Waltz” from his Masquerade suite. Like his Piano Concerto that I wrote about HERE in 2017, it doesn’t start so much as drop the listener smack into a musical extravaganza, where the lines between listener and music have been erased and, oh Lord, I’m inside it and waltzing and whirling, and for as long as the music lasts, I don’t want to be any place else i…