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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!prism!tegammk
  2. From: tegammk@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Kazmierczak)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
  4. Subject: Re: Shostakovich symphony recommendations
  5. Message-ID: <78782@hydra.gatech.EDU>
  6. Date: 23 Dec 92 21:42:23 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec19.202445.18333@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec22.084440.2125@news.unige.ch> <1992Dec23.154022.18623@nosc.mil>
  8. Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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  11. In article <1992Dec23.154022.18623@nosc.mil> sampson@nosc.mil (Charles H. Sampson) writes:
  12. >     Although you asked for recommendations, I'll give you a warning.
  13. >Until you become a Shostakovich fanatic, avoid [Symphonies] #2 and #3.  
  14. >
  15.  
  16. Dismal? Pedantic? How about inventive and new? Shostakovich was young and
  17. under pressure to conform, but that does not make these two symphonies for
  18. fanatics only...
  19.  
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  21. Mike Kazmierczak
  22. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
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