excerpt from 'Testimony- The memoirs of Shostakovich, as related to & edited by Solomon Volkov' pp. 3 (102 words)
excerpt from 'Testimony- The memoirs of Shostakovich, as related to & edited by Solomon Volkov' pp. 3 (102 words)
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Father sang; he sang gypsy romances, things such as 'Ah, it's not you I love so passionately' and The chrysanthemems in the garden have faded'. Magical music, they called it, and it was a great help to me later on when I banged away on the piano in cinemas. I don’t renounce my interest in gypsy songs. I don’t see anything shameful in it, as opposed to, say, Prokofiev, who pretended to be enraged when he heard such music. He probably had a better musical education than I did. But at least I’m not a snob. |
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