The first real challenge room. Unless you’re already an experimental music devotee, this collection of major avant-garde classical works might send you running for the skip button, but I urge you to power through! These orchestral sculptures are haunting, terrifying, and beautiful, the inspiration for everything from prog rock to modern horror movies (and in the case of the brilliant Carl Stalling, actual cartoon scores). Pull up your anchors and get lost in the storm.
1. Iannis Xenakis
Metastasis
2. Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in Three Movements: III. Con Moto
3. Conlon Nancarrow
Study No. 21
4. Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor: III. Allegro non troppo
5. Arnold Schoenberg
Variations for Orchestra: Finale
6. Carl Stalling
Variations On Mexican Hat Dance
7. Alexander Mosolov
Iron Foundry (Machine music)
8. György Ligeti
Requiem: II. Kyrie
9. John Adams
The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra
10. Charles Ives
The Unanswered Question for Trumpet, Flute Quartet and Strings