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- From: s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Richard A. Muirden [GA])
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich
- Subject: Re: Bruckner, Mahler, and DS (was Re: 10th symphony)
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 04:44:02 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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- vpt@jytko.jyu.fi (V.-P. Tahvanainen) writes:
-
- >Twelfth formal?! What do you mean? I simply think both lack any viable
- >musical ideas at least in comparison to DS's better work. I recall the
- >Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund remarking about the 12th that it is
- >painful to see the places in the score where DS clearly ran out of
- >ideas... Perhaps he just did not put his heart to a 'party line' work.
-
- True. What I meant by formal is that the 12th is rather bland or it just
- splutters along, notthing terribly "shost" about it, or does it seem that
- it's just, as you say, a half hearted effort to bow down to the party
- (as they had just let him become a mevmber around 1960)...
-
- -richard
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