Klarinet Archive - Posting 000252.txt from 2002/01

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Shostakovich 10th Symphony
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:42:54 -0500

Well, the Grout was never geared toward 20th Century music history anyway.

--- Bill Winkelman <bwink@-----.com> wrote:
> This might be a bit late, but thanks, Bill. That was a really fine article.
> I will always remember that the music history book we used in college -
> Grout, I think - devoted about a sentence to Shostakovich. What a crock!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniluk, Bill [mailto:bdaniluk@-----.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 2:31 PM
> To: 'klarinet@-----.org'
> Subject: RE: [kl] Shostakovich 10th Symphony
>
> Any Shostakovich lovers would be interested to read the following review
> from The New Republic, and perhaps the items being reviewed. The general
> tenor of the lengthy review is that this composer has been unfairly judged
> for his lack of academic rigor and supposed kowtowing to the Soviets. Here
> is a link to the review online:
> http://www.thenewrepublic.com/122401/taruskin122401_print.html
> BD
>
> WHEN SERIOUS MUSIC MATTERED.
> Double Trouble
> by Richard Taruskin
> Issue Date: 12.24.01
> Post Date: 12.17.01
> Story of a Friendship: The Letters ofDmitry
> Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 1941-1975
> translated by Anthony Phillips
> (Cornell University Press, 340pp., $35)
> Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Shostakovich:
> A Theory of Musical Incongruities
> by Esti Sheinberg
> (Ashgate, 378 pp., $89.95)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michele deGastyne [mailto:michele.degastyne@-----.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:02 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Shostakovich 10th Symphony
>
>
> Hello Bear,
>
> If you love Shostakovich and your music reflects that in any way at all, I
> can't wait to hear your new compositions!
> I've always loved this composer as well.
> <etc>
>
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