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This is completely imbecilic. The horrendous thing about Conservapedia is that young people are being indoctrinated with creationist nonsense.
[[User:Daffodil|Daffodil]] 20:09, 15 March 2007 (EDT)
Great article!--[[User:HPalmer|HPalmer]] 19:01, 16 March 2007 (EDT)
The information in this article is woefully incorrect. A few examples
of the many errors are shown below:<br>
<ol>
<li>Prokoviev, not Shostakovich, wrote "The Love for Three Oranges".</li>
<li>The author correctly notes that some of Shostakovich's music was
written to protest government oppression, but unaccountably fails to
mention such well-known examples as the final movement of the 5th
Symphony ("A Soviet Artist’s Reply to Just Criticism") and the 2nd
movement of the 10th Symphony (an unflattering musical portrait of
Stalin).</li>
<li>Although Shostakovich did make a short trip to the United
States, he did not emigrate from the Soviet Union and later return as
claimed by the author of this article - rather, it was Prokoviev who
emigrated and later returned.</li>
<li>Shostakovich did not write "Mars,
the Bringer of War" - this is a movement from "The Planets" by Gustav
Holst. Neither did he write a Piano Concerto in D Minor or the "Rituals
of Springtime" - the author may be thinking of Sergei Rachmaninoff's
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, and "Rites of Spring" was written by
Igor Stravinsky.</li>
<li>Although the author claims that Shostakovich
wrote less serious music toward the end of his life, some of his most
enduring symphonies (13, 14, and 15) and string quartets (12, 13, 14,
and 15) date from the late 1960s and early 1970s. In addition,
significant vocal works such as "Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva", a
suite for contralto and piano, were written toward the end of his life.
This is not mentioned in the article.</li>
</ol>
If the article is an
attempted hoax, it's not funny - at any rate, it's wildly inaccurate,
and needs to be taken down and completely rewritten. A good starting point for
accurate information about Dmitri Shostakovich is Laurel Fay's 1999
book "Shostakovich: A Life", Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-513438-9. --An3206 02:12, 20 March 2007 (EDT)
The article is indeed an attempted hoax. As I said in my previous discussion contribution, which I note has been deleted, Shostakovich did NOT write a famous prelude in C-sharp Minor Op 2 No 3 (sic) - the author must have known that it was Rachmaninov that wrote a famous prelude in C-sharp Minor Op 3 No 2 (sic). It's clearly deliberate misinformation. However, if you examine a number of articles about composers (Beethoven comes to mind), you will find similar silly distortions in all of them that were contributed by the same author. (Incidentally it's the Love OF Three Oranges, not the Love FOR three oranges - a similar pattern of even giving the wrong name e.g. "Rituals of Spring"). Someone should check all the articles contributed by the same author as this one, and take them all down. If kids are going to use this as a resource, the it is criminal to feed them with deliberate mis-information like this. [[User:Daffodil|Daffodil]] 17:21, 22 March 2007 (EDT)
[[User:Daffodil|Daffodil]] 20:09, 15 March 2007 (EDT)
Great article!--[[User:HPalmer|HPalmer]] 19:01, 16 March 2007 (EDT)
The information in this article is woefully incorrect. A few examples
of the many errors are shown below:<br>
<ol>
<li>Prokoviev, not Shostakovich, wrote "The Love for Three Oranges".</li>
<li>The author correctly notes that some of Shostakovich's music was
written to protest government oppression, but unaccountably fails to
mention such well-known examples as the final movement of the 5th
Symphony ("A Soviet Artist’s Reply to Just Criticism") and the 2nd
movement of the 10th Symphony (an unflattering musical portrait of
Stalin).</li>
<li>Although Shostakovich did make a short trip to the United
States, he did not emigrate from the Soviet Union and later return as
claimed by the author of this article - rather, it was Prokoviev who
emigrated and later returned.</li>
<li>Shostakovich did not write "Mars,
the Bringer of War" - this is a movement from "The Planets" by Gustav
Holst. Neither did he write a Piano Concerto in D Minor or the "Rituals
of Springtime" - the author may be thinking of Sergei Rachmaninoff's
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, and "Rites of Spring" was written by
Igor Stravinsky.</li>
<li>Although the author claims that Shostakovich
wrote less serious music toward the end of his life, some of his most
enduring symphonies (13, 14, and 15) and string quartets (12, 13, 14,
and 15) date from the late 1960s and early 1970s. In addition,
significant vocal works such as "Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva", a
suite for contralto and piano, were written toward the end of his life.
This is not mentioned in the article.</li>
</ol>
If the article is an
attempted hoax, it's not funny - at any rate, it's wildly inaccurate,
and needs to be taken down and completely rewritten. A good starting point for
accurate information about Dmitri Shostakovich is Laurel Fay's 1999
book "Shostakovich: A Life", Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-513438-9. --An3206 02:12, 20 March 2007 (EDT)
The article is indeed an attempted hoax. As I said in my previous discussion contribution, which I note has been deleted, Shostakovich did NOT write a famous prelude in C-sharp Minor Op 2 No 3 (sic) - the author must have known that it was Rachmaninov that wrote a famous prelude in C-sharp Minor Op 3 No 2 (sic). It's clearly deliberate misinformation. However, if you examine a number of articles about composers (Beethoven comes to mind), you will find similar silly distortions in all of them that were contributed by the same author. (Incidentally it's the Love OF Three Oranges, not the Love FOR three oranges - a similar pattern of even giving the wrong name e.g. "Rituals of Spring"). Someone should check all the articles contributed by the same author as this one, and take them all down. If kids are going to use this as a resource, the it is criminal to feed them with deliberate mis-information like this. [[User:Daffodil|Daffodil]] 17:21, 22 March 2007 (EDT)