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Occasional Notes on the Orchestral Works of Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony 4 in c, Op. 43 (1936). I listened to this work while walking at midday, under a cloudless and pale sky, in the North Saskatchewan River valley; it all seemed so right: my half-frozen thoughts,...
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The Displaced Anxiety of Discontent – Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet 1
The Moscow Show Trial of the Twenty-One occurred in March, 1938. It was one of the culminating events of Stalin’s Great Purge of 1936 through 1938. All of the defendants were prominent, and were...
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Thoughts Suggested by the 77th Anniversary of World War II
Yale University’s Timothy Snyder’s book, Black Earth, the Holocaust as History and Warning, is being promoted by the Vancouver Public Library. Reading in the book today, on September 1st, I came to...
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