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- From: raeram@kittyhawk (Richard A. Muirden)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich
- Subject: Re: Looking for a biography of DSH
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 05:24:25 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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- cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans) writes:
-
- >THe consensus seems to be that Tesimony is a good book, and it is
- >based on a true story. Instead I would recommend "the New Shostakovich",
- >by Ian McDonald (ISBN # 1-55553-089-0). I do not believe it has
- >been translated into French.
-
- I have finished Testimony and am about half way through "The New Shostakovich"
- and I find this book to not only be wonderful, but very informative, specially
- if you are after a pretty good description of the times (I would *not* have
- wanted to be around in the 30's!) and the politics of it all, and in depth
- discussions of each of the major pieces of DSCH's music, from the symphonies
- to concertos, string quartets etc. Explaining little things like sequences
- of repeated notes, and possible 'Stalin' motifs in places I'd never considered
- to overall views and so on. The story of the 4th and 5th symphonies is very
- well done.
-
-
- >Charles Yeomans
-
- -richard
-
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