Dmitri Shostakovich - the 1900's

from Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman, page 131:

A singer of intellectual pretensions once decided to sing my ‘Humoresques’ from 'Krokodil'. He came and sang them through to me, not at all badly.
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Dmitri Shostakovich / Isaac Glikman, Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman (Queen Square, London, 2001), p. 131. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431428526820 accessed: 29 March, 2024

Listeners

Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer, Pianist
1906-1975

Listening to

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'Humoresques' from Krokodil

Experience Information

Date/Time the 1900's
Medium live

Notes

Letter from Dmitri Shostakovich to Isaac Glikman, 8 May 1966, Nizhnyaya Oreanda


Originally submitted by verafonte on Tue, 12 May 2015 12:02:07 +0100
Approved on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:07:00 +0000