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- From: bobs@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Bob Sutton)
- Subject: Re: Symphony Nos. 7 & 12 (was:Re: 10th symphony)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.091308.3450@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:13:08 GMT
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- I almost forgot to mention this. It's an important piece of Shostakovich
- lore and it fits in with my previous comments about the the superhyping
- of the 7th symphony in 1942.
-
- Bela Bartok received his commission from Koussevitsky for the Concerto for
- Orchestra, his most famous piece and probably his best, at about the same
- time the 7th symphony made its premiere in the US. It received a great
- deal of air time on American radio. Bartok didn't like it very much and
- was really quite tired of hearing it all the time on the radio.
- Apparently he was very annoyed at the constant repetition of that
- theme from The Merry Widow in the first movement since he wrote a musical
- parody of it into the next-to-last movement of his Concerto for Orchestra.
-
- If you didn't know about it and you know the 7th symphony, listen for it.
- It's worth your while. When I first noticed it I got a good belly laugh
- from it.
-
- --
- Bob Sutton Love, most bitterly and fiercely oppresses
- bobs@gnu.ai.mit.edu those who fight it than those who offer
- al876@cleveland.freenet.edu their servitude. -- Ovid (Amores)
- rsutton@eis.calstate.edu
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