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RE: I just found MWE's original comments not untypical of certain types. . .

I'm definitely not getting involved in your debate with jdaniel over the merits of Shostakovich, except to say jdaniel's comment about the banality of parts of his work is telling. I see that banality as intentional, and very much part of the dour, cynical, and bleak aspects of his personality that are often at the fore in his music. Even his taste for humor, and he does very much have one, is most often for ironic, black humor.
It takes immense skill to convey all of that downbeat stuff as effectively as he does, and he does it with music alone. You don't need the context of the holocaust or the siege of Leningrad, or any text, even when he sets his music to one, to get his message.
Still, it's an acquired taste, like Angostura bitters or uni (sea urchin sushi), or midwinter "polar bear" ocean swimming. I'm not going to try to sell you on it.
BTW -- Your wife doesn't share your interest in babe musicians?? What a surprise. ;-)

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