Word: shostakoviches
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...Only those who have suffered very deeply can totally understand Dmitri Shostakovich's music," said Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich as he paid tribute to his former teacher and friend. "He gave to the world not only a sense of great beauty, but also a feeling for the great difficulties and contradictions of the epoch in which he lived...
...lives, in fact, provide a more poignant illustration of those contradictions than that of the Soviet composer who died at 68 of heart disease outside Moscow. Along with Stravinsky and Prokofiev, Shostakovich was one of the masters of contemporary Russian music. Throughout his long creative life, his works went in and out of capricious official favor with a regularity that Shostakovich must have found dispiriting as well as baffling. His First Symphony, written in 1925 when he was 18, revealed such mastery of orchestration and startling harmonic originality that his reputation was immediately established. He believed in the ideals...
...years later, Shostakovich was back in favor again with the Fifth Symphony. Striving for simplicity, he avoided complexities and eccentric tonalities. Instead, he fashioned what became his characteristic symphonic architecture: sprawling largos, martial rhythms and jagged melodic intervals...
...cannot find. That is why they are using our ideas." There have been other movies which have understood almost perfectly the social moment which made them possible, but none have seemed so much the quintessence of that moment as does Potemkin. Hopefully, this is the version with the great Shostakovich score...
...Temporarily blinded by a megawatt supertrooper rock-show spotlight, Galina lost sight of her husband and missed a lift during the grand pas de deux from The Nutcracker. " 'Where are you, Valery?' I cried to myself," she said later. However, in The Lady and the Hooligan, a Shostakovich ballet, Galina's feathery pirouettes and Panov's dramatic aerial twists and one-knee landings were expressed in sharp balletic syntax...