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    From LSO’s Chronicle

    Russian 20th-century music is inseparable from history. As film composers, Shostakovich and Prokofiev both got used to the idea of providing accompaniments to images of great moments from their country’s past. But few have chronicled their own times as relentlessly as Shostakovich.

    Variously fêted and reviled by the Soviet authorities, and constantly treading a fine line between triumph and disaster – sometimes even between life and death – his desire to compose never wavered, and thus it is that the late symphonies featured in this series offer an image of the postwar decades in music of unfailingly intense expression, from the ‘optimistic tragedy’ of the Tenth to the descriptive power of the Eleventh, and the dark contemplations of the Fourteenth to the quirky irony of the Fifteenth. Yet out of necessity Shostakovich’s is also an art rich in ambiguity, its surface messages often seemingly undermined by steely irony and double meaning.

    Three decades after his death these great works still have the power both to fascinate and to reach deep into our hearts and minds.

    From Wikipedia: Shostakovich’s page:

    After a period influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky (Symphony No. 1), Shostakovich switched to modernism (Symphony No. 2 and The Nose) before developing a hybrid of styles with Lady Macbeth and the state-suppressed Fourth Symphony. This hybrid style ranged from the neo-classical (with Stravinskian influences) to the post-romantic music (with Mahlerian influences). His tonality involved much use of modality and some astringent neo-classical harmonies à la Hindemith and Prokofiev. His music frequently includes sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque.



  5. links for 2008-02-03

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    CountPosts v 1.0 – WordPress Plugin – Đukijev blog count visits on wp for each post (not when loged-in as admin) (tags: plugin wordpress statistics)

    Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress (tags: wordpress xml google sitemaps)

    Street fashion photos from street style blogs. Feedshion collect the best street fashion photos from all the greatest street style blogs for your viewing pleasure. (tags: blog clothes fashion feed)

    r-echos » Blog Archive » Would-be skyscraper structure (tags: architecture volume preview)

    Latest Post from each Category plugin for WordPress · Dagon Design show the latest post for each category (tags: wordpress plugin category)

    r-echos » Beta version A new interface for R-Echos, with featured republished articles, most read articles and a visual zaitgeist (tags: internal interface beta r_echos visualisation project info_hub)

    YouTube – The Singing, Ringing Tree Blowing wind is making music (tags: art music sculpture outdoor)

    Objets livres [design éditorial] The printed thing considered as object. In french (tags: accessibility book design typography edition editorial_design)

    robotlab – art | installation | research Some very nice pictures of a factory’s robot used to draw portrait: the performance enlighten proprerties of both universe: automated production and art of portraiture (tags: robot drawing portrait representation art performance)

    Numéro deux – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ‘Am I a landscape or a factory’ Godard, via Amandine, about the industrial robot which draw portraits (tags: godard quote movie relationship)

    DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » 3 Sites That Had Me Thinking a nice way of introducting links and thoughts – the selected websites are very interesting too. (tags: site link blog)