In Reply to: Boulez calls Shostakovich a "second-rate composer" posted by Chris from Lafayette on January 20, 2016 at 10:44:30:
Twentieth Century autocrats had notoriously bad taste in the arts.
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. "
― W.C. Fields
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Follow Ups
- Shostakovich wrote his worst stuff to placate Stalin and the censors - Jay Buridan 17:55:09 01/21/16 (17)
- True. - rbolaw 19:54:47 01/21/16 (16)
- I understand what you're trying to say, but. . . - Chris from Lafayette 20:45:34 01/21/16 (15)
- RE: I understand what you're trying to say, but. . . - krisjan 13:02:17 01/23/16 (2)
- Thanks for the info - I of course have not heard everything by Shostakovich - Chris from Lafayette 21:48:33 01/23/16 (1)
- Correction: I have Elizabeth Wilson's biography about DSCH not Fey's - krisjan 05:32:55 01/24/16 (0)
- Oh, relax and have some vodka! ;-) nt - rbolaw 06:27:01 01/22/16 (6)
- RE: Oh, relax and have some vodka! ;-) nt - Chris from Lafayette 09:07:15 01/22/16 (5)
- Go against the grain... - genungo 10:27:34 01/23/16 (1)
- Interesting - I didn't realize Idaho had so many excellent vodkas [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 21:54:38 01/23/16 (0)
- I brought about 8 different brands home from Russia - rbolaw 09:55:49 01/22/16 (2)
- Did you ever try a brand called "Kremlin Award"? [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 10:16:07 01/22/16 (1)
- RE: Did you ever try a brand called "Kremlin Award"? [nt] - rbolaw 11:25:13 01/22/16 (0)
- His quartets were not atonal only because... - Jay Buridan 03:40:37 01/22/16 (2)
- Good one! (nt) - krisjan 12:52:34 01/23/16 (0)
- LOL! Now THAT is funny! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 09:01:54 01/22/16 (0)
- RE: I understand what you're trying to say, but. . . - ahendler 22:24:35 01/21/16 (1)
- Yeah - Putin has changed all that - you still don't want to get on the wrong side of him though! - Chris from Lafayette 09:31:52 01/22/16 (0)