In Reply to: You had a point? posted by Sondek on January 28, 2015 at 18:26:41:
Shostakovich composed his 5th symphony as "A soviet artists response to just criticism ". He was threatened by Stalin to write material more representative of the USSR. More Patriotic...more uplifting. He wrote the 5th with a tremendous amount of sarcasm, to send up Stalin and his regime.... and of course to stay alive! It seems AA has its own party line...I am more comfortable being myself.
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- RE: You had a point? - thebordas 18:51:13 01/28/15 (3)
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