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Shostakovich With Strings |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Philip Kennicott |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,715 Words, 10,925 Characters |
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Composer Dmitri Shostakovich remains an immensely public and politicized figure, despite the fact that his supposed transgressions -such as his public readings of prepared pro-Stalinist speeches in the Soviet Union - have long been forgiven, dismissed, or forgotten. Though his integrity is no longer attacked, innumerable apologists still leap to defend him as a maligned cultural martyr. This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of his death, and it seems, even now, that he retains a mysterious hold on the Western imagination.
Last autumn the Manhattan String Quartet offered New York a fascinating and rare traversal of all fifteen of Shostakovich's string quartets. It was, apparently, the first such complete cycle performed by an American quartet in New York City. For a string quar...
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... early ballets will resurface. There are hopeful signs of this already. Even if the Manhattan Quartet’s recent cycle was an overly serious affair, musical endeavors like these are always extremely welcome. If nothing else, they keep this music in the public's ear and prepare the day when it will be heard as more than a requiem to the "soul paean to a lively, gently mocking, earth-bound man.
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