Explorations for Keyboard and Orchestra: Second Movement
Coming in much more sedate and beautiful, this is a nice respite from the bombast that closed the first movement. This gets more energized and powerful as it grows. It’s often more purely classical in nature than the opener was, at least in the early sections. They do get into some pretty rocking territory, though. It gets rather crazed and moves towards fusion or Rock In Opposition at times, in fact. There is some soaring guitar soloing (let me say that it sounds like guitar most of the time, but I think it’s probably keyboards) later in the piece, too, landing this one purely in progressive rock at that point. Sure, it’s symphonic, but it’s prog rock. | 
