Posted on 09/21/2006 7:35:25 PM PDT by EveningStar
...Shostakovich's music stands as a sharp contrast to that of this year's other celebrated musical birthday boy, Wolfgang Mozart, whose hummable strains have drenched the airwaves in observance of the 250th anniversary of his birth. Though Shostakovich's oeuvre isn't without merriment, his most noted works can be forbidding — with dissonances, sometimes-jagged rhythms and flirtations with avant-garde techniques — and they are awash in the troubles that plagued the man and his native land...
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Ever hear the 10th?
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