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Post by Trog on Oct 25, 2014 11:19:41 GMT
Last one, I promise.
“The Romance” from Dmitri Shostakovich’s Gadfly suite, which is basically film music he composed for a Soviet propaganda film about communism. (This was after Stalin promised to have him shot unless he started to write proletarian music. Life was much simpler, then.)
The film was based on a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, an Irish woman and daughter of mathematician George Boole. I once tried to read it, but it’s dreadfully boring – something about a priest and a young man discovering the joys of warm collectivist consciousness, and dying for it, or something. Although the novel and the film was hugely popular in the Soviet Union and Maoist China.
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Post by cjm on Oct 26, 2014 14:22:31 GMT
When I read your description of the music I thought that it is unlikely to be any good. It is very moving though and Benedetti is as beautiful as the music :-)
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