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31 May 2014, 2:06 pm

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h23WjKXDe4w[/youtube]

This one has a cool creepy overtone too it. It scares me a little.

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31 May 2014, 2:16 pm

wozeree wrote:

Awake wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h23WjKXDe4w[/youtube]

This one has a cool creepy overtone too it. It scares me a little.

Shostakovich was an outwardly very shy, small human being living under the oppression of USSR communism, who denounced his music. He had a lot of pent up emotion. That is scary!

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31 May 2014, 2:34 pm

How does one denounce one's music? He must have felt very strongly that it said something?

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31 May 2014, 2:39 pm

I just looked him up, he wrote one of the operas I'm going to see in the fall - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

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31 May 2014, 2:47 pm

Under the communist regime, you were not allowed to speak out or disagree with the government. If the government didn't like what you were doing they could at the very least make your life miserable, or at the very worst send you or your family to Siberia or have you executed.

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31 May 2014, 2:52 pm

Cannons!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiKSIjz9Xkc[/youtube]

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31 May 2014, 3:11 pm

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I know! My point was, music isn't like a novel where you openly say things critical to a government. Music is interpretive as to what it says, so why would they be offended by it? What did he or the govt think it said? I'm curious because I"m still learning to interpret it myself.

I guess it's possible that the govt just didn't like his style. Oh yeah and he did write operas and operas do say things.

Edit - I just did some more research - I'm glad you brought this up it's very interesting. I think I answered my own question though.

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31 May 2014, 4:20 pm

Music was supposed to be optimistic and patriotic. and convey a positive attitude. Tragic or depressing music was forbidden.
This is from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich

In 1936, Shostakovich fell from official favour. The year began with a series of attacks on him in Pravda, in particular an article entitled, "Muddle Instead of Music". Shostakovich was away on a concert tour in Arkhangelsk when he heard news of the first Pravda article. Two days before the article was published on the evening of 28 January,[17] a friend had advised Shostakovich to attend the Bolshoi Theatre production of Lady Macbeth. When he arrived, he saw that Joseph Stalin and the Politburo were there. In letters written to his friend Ivan Sollertinsky, Shostakovich recounted the horror with which he watched as Stalin shuddered every time the brass and percussion played too loudly. Equally horrifying was the way Stalin and his companions laughed at the love-making scene between Sergei and Katerina. Eyewitness accounts testify that Shostakovich was "white as a sheet" when he went to take his bow after the third act.[18]

The article condemned Lady Macbeth as formalist, "coarse, primitive and vulgar".

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31 May 2014, 4:25 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBsr9EATRTk[/youtube]

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31 May 2014, 4:35 pm

Awake wrote:

Music was supposed to be optimistic and patriotic. and convey a positive attitude. Tragic or depressing music was forbidden.
This is from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich

In 1936, Shostakovich fell from official favour. The year began with a series of attacks on him in Pravda, in particular an article entitled, "Muddle Instead of Music". Shostakovich was away on a concert tour in Arkhangelsk when he heard news of the first Pravda article. Two days before the article was published on the evening of 28 January,[17] a friend had advised Shostakovich to attend the Bolshoi Theatre production of Lady Macbeth. When he arrived, he saw that Joseph Stalin and the Politburo were there. In letters written to his friend Ivan Sollertinsky, Shostakovich recounted the horror with which he watched as Stalin shuddered every time the brass and percussion played too loudly. Equally horrifying was the way Stalin and his companions laughed at the love-making scene between Sergei and Katerina. Eyewitness accounts testify that Shostakovich was "white as a sheet" when he went to take his bow after the third act.[18]

The article condemned Lady Macbeth as formalist, "coarse, primitive and vulgar".

Oooo and I get to see it!

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31 May 2014, 7:11 pm

Awake wrote:

Cannons!

More like Canons!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-xbhfNR2g[/youtube]

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31 May 2014, 8:59 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvkVqpLX_E[/youtube]

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31 May 2014, 9:25 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMPUSL30JqY[/youtube]

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01 Jun 2014, 4:50 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyM2AnA96yEI[/youtube]

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01 Jun 2014, 4:54 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMLnoe957Ls[/youtube]

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01 Jun 2014, 5:02 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-q42ev-CHA[/youtube]

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