Dmitri Shostakovich - the 1900's
from Testimony- The memoirs of Shostakovich, as related to & edited by Solomon Volkov, page 130:
When they just send you music, it’s not so bad, I know that from my own experience. You can glance through a score rather quickly, particularly if you see straight away that it’s hopeless. Of course, if you want to experience the music fully, you must sightread it in the amount of time that it would take to perform, that’s the only way to derive real satisfaction from reading it. But that’s a method to be used only with good music. It’s torture to ‘listen’ with your eyes to bad music. You just glance through it. But what do you do when a talentless composer comes and plays his … more >>
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Dmitri Shostakovich, and Soloman Volkov (ed.), Testimony- The memoirs of Shostakovich, as related to & edited by Solomon Volkov (London, 1979), p. 130. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431346935089 accessed: 11 October, 2024
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Date/Time | the 1900's |
Medium | live |
Originally submitted by verafonte on Mon, 11 May 2015 13:22:15 +0100
Approved on Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:10:30 +0000