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~ Monday, November 28 ~
~ Tuesday, August 23 ~
“ …He tore it to shreds. He said, ” I cannot say anything about such music. What is this enthusiasm for the Grotesque? There were already Grotesque bits in the Trio. All the cello pieces are Grotesque and finally this Scherzo is also Grotesque! What is this!”… I have a great deal of respect and love for him, as he’s a very good person and musician. For this reason I am rather upset about his attitude to the cello pieces and the symphony scherzo. But he gets on with me superbly well. Admittedly, he’s in a bit of a huff with me because I haven’t done anything for more than six months. Besides he’s too conservhttp://www.tumblr.com/new/quoteative: “the inviolable foundations of the kuchka,” the “sacred traditions of Nikolai Andreyevich [Rimsky-Korsakov]” and other such pompous phrases. Unfortunately,I can no longer him with my music.”- Dmitriy Shostakovitch
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Shostakovitch: A Life by Laurel E. Fay
“ You’re a different human being to everyone you meet.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Rant (via imfantasyparade)
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~ Monday, August 15 ~
Oistrakh playing some Brahms : )
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