Word: shostakovich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orchestrations so skillful, that Rachmaninoff's music simply will not go away, despite the condescension of academia and the critics. He may not have written music "of his own time" (assuming serialism and atonality to be the proper fashion), but then neither does Benjamin Britten nor Dmitri Shostakovich. Nor, in other eras, did Edward Elgar or Bach worry about being in vogue...
Criticizing Theodorakis' music is like carping at the grammar of Tom Paine. As a youthful product of music conservatories in Athens and Paris, Theodorakis, a lawyer's son, was accomplished enough to write a symphony that could pass as minor Shostakovich. In the years after World War II, he aligned himself with the Communist partisans fighting the Greek monarchy and drew his first jail term. He decided that his real medium was the laiki moussiki (serious pop) central to the everyday lives of the Greek working classes...
...pages of Pravda, Izvestia and other official newspapers. In part, the list of Sakharov's and Solzhenitsyn's accusers read like an "S. Hurok presents" concert program. Violinists David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan wrote that Sakharov is "stirring up the dying coals of the cold war." Dmitri Shostakovich, who once praised Stalin for his "wise and delicate" musical advice, joined Aram Khachaturian and other composers in accusing Sakharov of debasing "the honor and dignity of the Soviet intelligentsia." Scientists, writers, even farmers and factory workers chimed in with other messages of accusation against the two dissidents...
There is only one class on the Lermontov, the first Soviet passenger ship to sail into New York harbor in 25 years. One member of that classless society was Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, 66, who after disembarking with his wife Irina, took in Aïda, one of his favorites, at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Shostakovich was on his way to get an honorary degree from Northwestern University. After talking to the composer about his visit to the campus, his host, Dr. Irwin Weil, said, "I feel like I've just talked to Beethoven...