Dmitri Shostakovich in London - in the middle of the 1900's
from Dmitry Shostakovich-About Himself and His Times, page 319:
Comparatively recently, a couple of years ago, I was in London and heard Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, using my orchestration. They sang well, but of course the Russian in Khovanshchina is not quite the same as it is nowadays; and then there was a bit of an English accent ... It wasn't quite right.
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Dmitri Shostakovich, and L. Grigoryev and Ya. Platek (ed.), Dmitry Shostakovich-About Himself and His Times (Moscow, 1981), p. 319. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1458959717327 accessed: 20 April, 2024
Listeners
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'Khovanshchina'
written by Modest Mussorgsky |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | in the middle of the 1900's |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | indoors, in public |
Notes
Excerpt from a documentary film "Dmitry Shostakovich".
Originally submitted by verafonte on Sat, 26 Mar 2016 02:35:17 +0000
Approved on Sat, 23 Apr 2016 23:02:37 +0100