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Talk:Dmitri Shostakovich (view source)
Revision as of 03:03, August 19, 2008
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This article really needs to mention the fact that Shostakovich inserted coded messages against the Bolsheviks in his music. And also the publishing of his memoirs, which was smuggled out to the West by Volkov and had all sorts of inside dirt on the Soviet system, especially Soviet music system, but was mocked and suppressed by Western liberals. this is probably the main reason people know of Shostakovich today. maybe I will get the Volkov book from library again and add some of the information from there. [[User:ELeger|ELeger]] 07:23, 18 May 2008 (EDT)
This article really needs to mention the fact that Shostakovich inserted coded messages against the Bolsheviks in his music. And also the publishing of his memoirs, which was smuggled out to the West by Volkov and had all sorts of inside dirt on the Soviet system, especially Soviet music system, but was mocked and suppressed by Western liberals. this is probably the main reason people know of Shostakovich today. maybe I will get the Volkov book from library again and add some of the information from there. [[User:ELeger|ELeger]] 07:23, 18 May 2008 (EDT)
I have never heard of """Testimony" being mocked and suppressed by Western liberals." I'd qualify as a liberal and I've had a copy since it was first published. And it was "liberals" like Bernstein and Britten that championed his music. As for his music not being known in the West, I remember broadcasts of each of his later symphonies being advertised on Australian public ('liberal') radio a week before they were available. A new Shosh. was a big thing. It was only ever the extreme loony left that tried any minimisation of Soviet excesses. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 23:03, 18 August 2008 (EDT)