Shostakovich
Americannoun
noun
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Shostakovich soon spotted her talents and told her that she could follow her own "incorrect path", however misguided it might seem.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
Waltzes by Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Shostakovich were tinged with memory, cutting sarcasm and outrageous spoof.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024
With a huge orchestral machine powered by limitless quantities of adrenaline, Dudamel needed only to take Shostakovich at his word, and glorify the orchestra that he may love more than any other.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024
“This is a homage to Shostakovich,” she said in the short film “Vera Klement: Blunt Edge,” directed by Wonjung Bae, referring to the Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2024
You don’t expect to hear rock and roll guitar in Shostakovich or a bluesy sax solo in Bartok, even though these composers would have heard both, often, during their working lives.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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