It's tempting to interpret his music and his behaviour from our Western, and post-Soviet,

perspective. To me, he was a great composer but a fragile person. To compose music to order was what Soviet composers did - the state was their paymaster - and can't be criticised for that. Many great composers wrote music for despots.

Posted By: Higher Wrather on February 5th 2017 at 13:18:44

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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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