His 12th Symphony was titled "The Year 1917", and is very programmatic. The movements are

named to commemorate events and places of the revolution. Shostakovich was conflicted, no doubt, but there's also no doubt that he wrote pieces to satisfy his political masters. Symphony No. 12 is one of those.

Posted By: Higher Wrather on February 5th 2017 at 12:55:04

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I went to see The Norwich P (n/m) (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Feb 5, 11:30:15
- Philharmonic last night (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Feb 5, 11:32:18
  - me too. Liked the first movement of the Copland. The Shostakovich was a bit Soviet (n/m) (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Feb 5, 12:34:35
    - Shostakovich was anti-Soviet (General Chat) - Old Man, Feb 5, 12:43:29
      - His 12th Symphony was titled "The Year 1917", and is very programmatic. The movements are (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Feb 5, 12:55:04
        
        Oh he did, but because he had to, not because he wanted to (General Chat) - Old Man, Feb 5, 13:09:40
        
        It's tempting to interpret his music and his behaviour from our Western, and post-Soviet, (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Feb 5, 13:18:44
      - I won't pretend to understand it all (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Feb 5, 12:51:13
      - You are such a brilliant posted om. 👍 (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 5, 12:49:02
  - Didn't realise there was one. (General Chat) - avenging canary, Feb 5, 11:35:13

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