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- From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
- Subject: Re: Looking for a biography of DSH
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- References: <2874@irit.irit.fr> <1992Dec19.110027.27893@ms.uky.edu> <1hone9INNt53@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:24:26 GMT
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- In <1hone9INNt53@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> raeram@kittyhawk (Richard A. Muirden) writes:
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- >cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans) writes:
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- >>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
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- Is this the multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald who was in early King Crimson
- and helped form Foreigner?
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- >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.
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- Now I'm going to have to go out and get it :(
-
- (And here I was trying to save money...)
-
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- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
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- jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- --"The Dead", James Joyce
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