Dmitri Shostakovich in Russia - in the middle of the 1900's
from Dmitry Shostakovich-About Himself and His Times, page 235:
I have always been delighted by the diversity of his [Yury Shaporin] work. The younger generation of Soviet musicians know Shaporin as a great composer, an outstanding teacher and someone who never neglected his public duties. But the musicians of my generation also know him as an excellent conductor and pianist. He always enjoyed great success as a conductor at the Gorky Drama Tehatre in Leningrad. It was there, by the way, that he conducted his own first-rate music for the play The Flea … more >>
Dmitri Shostakovich, and L. Grigoryev and Ya. Platek (ed.), Dmitry Shostakovich-About Himself and His Times (Moscow, 1981), p. 235. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1456611626453 accessed: 15 November, 2024
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'The Flea'
written by Yuri Shaporin |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of the 1900's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Excerpt from 'Sovetskaya Muzyka', No. 11, 1962.