Shostakovich and his world
By: edited by Laurel E. Fay.
Contributors: Fay, Laurel E.; Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975.
Series: Princeton paperbacks; Bard Music Festival; Bard Music Festival series
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, -- 1906-1975
Description: The essays in this collection delve into neglected aspects of Shostakovich's formidable legacy covering topics such as the choreography, costumes, décor and music of his ballet, the musical references, parodies and quotations in his operatta, his activities as a pedagogue and the mark it left on his students, and much more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Documents. Shostakovich, letters to his mother, 1923-1927 / selected by Dmitrii Frederiks and Rosa Sadykhova ; introduced, and with commentary, by Rosa Sadykhova ; translated by Rolanda Norton; title: Response of Shostakovich to a questionnaire on the psychology of the creative process / prepared by Roman Ilich Gruber ; edited and annotated by staff researchers of the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow ; translated, with additional notes, by Malcolm Hamrick Brown; title: Stalin and Shostakovich : letters to a "friend" / Leonid Maximenkov; title: "The phenomenon of the Seventh" : a documentary essay on Shostakovich's "War" symphony / Christopher H. Gibbs; title: pt. 2. Essays. Shostakovich as industrial saboteur : observations on The bolt / Simon Morrison; title: The nose and the Fourteenth symphony : an affinity of opposites / Levon Hakobian ; translated by Dimitri Shapovalov; title: Shostakovich and The russian literary tradition / Caryl Emerson; title: Fried chicken in the bird-cherry trees / Gerard McBurney; title: Shostakovich and his pupils / David Fanning; title: Shostakovich's "twelve-tone" compositions and the politics and practice of Soviet serialism / Peter J. Schmelz; title: Listening to Shostakovich / Leon Botstein.