Klarinet Archive - Posting 000253.txt from 2002/01

From: "Bill Winkelman" <bwink@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Shostakovich 10th Symphony
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:07:14 -0500

Yeah, just one chapter on the 20th century. (This was over 25 years ago. I
assume that Grout, like most text books, had been "revised and enhanced"
many times since then. Just the same, Grout devoted far more space to
composers who, to put it politely, were not any more substantial.

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Leupold [mailto:leupold_1@-----.com]
Subject: RE: [kl] Shostakovich 10th Symphony

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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