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	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Shostakovich
		Shostakovich was considered promising by the conservatory staff; he was active as a student composer and wrote his First Symphony as a graduation piece in 1925.
		Still, Shostakovich was disciplined by the cultural authorities on several occasions, particularly when all of the USSR's leading composers, including Serge Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian, and Nicolai Myaskovsky, were denounced for "formalism," or decadent avant-gardism, in 1948; this coming after a period of war when artists had greater creative freedoms.
		Shostakovich's music, a collection of works providing the landscape of a torn man, is baldly Russian in style, yet diverse.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/shostakovich.html (1228 words)

	Just how Soviet was Shostakovich's music?
		Actually, it is Shostakovich's birth that is the focus this year: 2006 is the 100th anniversary of his birth, on Sept. 25, 1906, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
		Volkov's claim is that Shostakovich operated like a yurodivy, or a Russian "holy fool." Under the surface of obedience (though sometimes poking out in plain view), his life and works are awash in irony and hidden criticism of the regime that, other than a few public slapdowns, afforded him respect and even privileged circumstances.
		Maxim Shostakovich, the composer's son, has repeatedly stated that "Testimony" is Volkov's book about his father, not actually his father's words.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06274/725924-42.stm (1219 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich (born Leningrad on May 10, 1938) is a Russian conductor and pianist.
		Maxim is the dedicatee and first performer of his father's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major (Op.
		Maxim Shostakovich recently completed a cycle of his father's 15 symphonies with the Prague Symphony Orchestra for the Czech label, Supraphon.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Maxim_Shostakovich (200 words)

	The Prague Post Online: News
		Maxim Shostakovich's devotion to his father's work is such that he abandoned his own ideas and now strives to re-create the music, and its intent, as faithfully as possible.
		Maxim Shostakovich is a man on a mission: To spread his father Dmitri's music around the world, which he has done with religious zeal ever since he defected from the Soviet Union in 1981.
		In this, the centenary celebration year of his birth, it's safe to say that Dmitri Shostakovich is regarded as one of the seminal composers of the 20th century, an heir to Mahler and Tchaikovsky, the equal of Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
	praguepost.com /P03/2006/Art/0525/tempo1.php (1281 words)

	Svensk Konsertdirektion AB
		Son of the noted composer Dmitri Shostakovich, Maxim Shostakovich was born in 1938 in Leningrad.
		Shostakovich became Assistant Conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Government Academic Symphony of the USSR.
		Shostakovich and his son Dmitri requested and were granted asylum by the United States while they were on tour in Nuremberg, West Germany.
	www.loddingkonsert.se /artists.asp?id=48 (0 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - 100 Years On, Shostakovich's Legacy is Mixed
		Although Shostakovich could write pieces full of light and wit and charm, the overriding quality in his creative output is a deep seriousness.
		What to "get" in Shostakovich has always been a matter of some debate.Like all music, his can be heard on strictly abstract terms, a thing of notes and dynamics and tempos and structures.
		Maxim Shostakovich says it was "a great happiness to be the son of such a father.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=18966 (1652 words)

	Shostakovich
		Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony in D minor was first performed on 21 November 1937, by the Leningrad Philharmonic with Yevgeny Mravinsky, who was the composer's favorite conductor and premièred five other Shostakovich symphonies.
		Shostakovich's music is a solid record of his loathing of all aspects of totalitarianism and document his as well as others' oppression under Soviet rule.
		When Shostakovich's life is seen from the surface, even with knowledge of his contempt for the Soviet regime, one may see a man with no self-value who did anything required of him just as long as he could compose.
	www.sharpcheddar.com /issue.htm (0 words)

	Shostakovich: Cello Concertos No.1 and 2 - A Good-Music-Guide Review
		Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Concertos 1 and 2
		Mstislav Rostropovich, to whom Dmitri Shostakovich dedicated both his cello concertos, once quoted the composer as saying that he had studied all the world's great concertos for cello and orchestra, and that his favorite of them all, perhaps surprisingly, was Saint-Saëns' First Concerto, in a minor.
		Stalin died in 1953, five years after the First Congress of the Composers' Union, where Shostakovich was the most prominent of a number of composers condemned for 'Formalism' in music (a term whose fluid indefiniteness was politically convenient for Shostakovich's enemies in the arts and music bureaucracy of the Soviet Union).
	www.good-music-guide.com /reviews/104-shostakovich-cello.htm (1139 words)

	Dimitri Shostakovich
		Later, Shostakovich wrote about his first quartet of 1938 that, while composing, he tried to imagine images of his childhood, naive and cheerful atmospheres, that match with Spring.
		In 1979, posthumously, the memoirs of Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) were published by the Russian musicologist Solomon Volkov, who had smuggled the manuscript abroad before he emigrated to the United States in 1976.
		Ian MacDonald's book The New Shostakovich, published in 1990, did not contradict the general message of the memoirs, neither did Shostakovich's letters from the years 1941 to 1971, published in 1995 by Isaak Glikman.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo14/shostakovich.htm (972 words)

	MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH PERFORMING AT THE PATRAS ROMAN ODEON FOR THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE - Printer Friendly Page - ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maxim Shostakovich, the son of the distinguished musician Dmitri Shostakovich, claimed to be very happy to perform in Patras, for such a significant Institution as the European Capital of Culture, whilst he was pleasantly surprised by the performance of the Orchestra of Patras.
		Son of the noted composer Dmitri Shostakovich, Maxim Shostakovich was born in 1938 in Leningrad.
		Shostakovich became Assistant Conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Government Academic Symphony of the USSR.
	patras2006.gr /en/modules/news/print.php?storyid=31 (1010 words)

	Shostakovich Festival
		Shostakovich’s rare presence -- this was her first ever visit to the West Coast and only her second time in the United States (she and her husband came here in 1973 when he received an honorary doctorate from Northwestern University).
		Shostakovich first met the composer while she was working as an editor for a music publisher (preparing the release of “Moscow Cheryomushki” and the reissue of “Katerina Izmailova”).
		Brown, entitled “Shostakovich: Expropriated and Exploited,” concerned the historical changes of public attitude toward Shostakovich and his music and how those shifts have been brought about by those who would turn his music to their own purposes, be they political, academic or financial.
	www.angelfire.com /music2/davidbundler/shostakovich.html (2833 words)

	Arts Gallery
		Shostakovich continued to create music through periods of repression and liberalization; he died at age 68 in 1975.
		Conductor Maxim Shostakovich, the composer's son, who was himself denounced after his defection to the West in 1981, remembers something of the roller coaster ride.
		Maxim wasn't born until 1938, two years after the Pravda denunciations, but, he says, as he was growing up, the saga of "Lady Macbeth" wasn't hidden or forgotten.
	www.artukraine.com /music/lady_macb.htm (1759 words)

	DSCH 12 Shostakovich CD Reviews
		Shostakovich's 1st Symphony is often regarded as the academic exercise of a budding composer, modelled in its first half after the Russian symphonic tradition while the latter half represented the composer developing his own voice.
		Shostakovich's selection of six of her now bitter, now satirical lyrics is patently self-referential in centring on the vicissitudes of the creative life.
		For the Shostakovich devotee, however, the work is still worth hearing on occasion as an earnest evocation of the turbulent stirrings of turn-of-the-century Russia and not least, for its ramifications on the composer's own cloaked state of mind during the final years of the Stalin administration.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/reviews12.htm (7967 words)

	Music review: Festival showcases Shostakovich's variety (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Son Maxim Shostakovich was at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands to conduct.
		The music did prove that, one, Shostakovich occasionally composed what sounded like first-rate movie music, and two, that there were not many moments in which Shostakovich was able to have fun unencumbered by the immense pressure of being an odd-man-out in Stalinist and post-Stalinist Russia.
		Maxim Shostakovich necessarily had to concentrate on keeping the musicians together and playing at his exuberant pace.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/06/29/tex-fest.0-1.html (313 words)

	The Prague Post Online: News
		Maxim Shostakovich's devotion to his father's work is such that he abandoned his own ideas and now strives to re-create the music, and its intent, as faithfully as possible.
		Maxim Shostakovich is a man on a mission: To spread his father Dmitri's music around the world, which he has done with religious zeal ever since he defected from the Soviet Union in 1981.
		In this, the centenary celebration year of his birth, it's safe to say that Dmitri Shostakovich is regarded as one of the seminal composers of the 20th century, an heir to Mahler and Tchaikovsky, the equal of Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
	www.praguepost.com /P03/2006/Art/0525/tempo1.php (1362 words)

	Maxim Vengerov
		Maxim Vengerov was born in the Western Siberian capital of Novosibirsk in 1974.
		Maxim Vengerov plays the Stradivarius "ex-Kiesewetter" (1723) on extended loan from Clement Arrison through the Stradivari Society Inc. of Chicago.
		Shostakovich's piece is of such a clarity and transparency that even non-informed listeners immediately understand what it is all about.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo5/vengerov.htm (1180 words)

	The Testimony question (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shostakovich insisted the book be published after his death with good reason considering the material in it paints him in a light that the Soviet authorities of the day wouldn't have exactly been thrilled with.
		Maxim Shostakovich remained silent for years on the subject but finaly agreed that the book has the ring of truth about it.
		Citing that the `signed' pages that Volkov claims Shostakovich signed as proof of the book's validity are in fact from other sources, and are only produced as the first pages of chapters.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /users/mn200/music/shostakovich/testimony.html (291 words)

	DSCH 12 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Symphony No. 6
		Maxim's Sixth takes all these into account, and presents a reading that is satisfying in most aspects.
		Maxim takes his time with the declamations, and they carry the weight of huge suffering tempered with a great dignity.
		Maxim's Scherzo matches his rivals in its bitter irony and grimacing optimism, although it is less driven than all the alternatives mentioned.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs12op54.htm (730 words)

	Biography for Dmitri Shostakovich (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shostakovich was hurt by betrayal of his colleagues, such as Dmitri Kabalevsky who banned his opera and criticized his music for political reasons.
		Shostakovich, who was an awarded pianist himself, had composed outstanding works for piano, such as his Piano concertos No1 and No2.
		Shostakovich died of a heart attack on august 9, 1975, in Moscow, and was laid to rest in Novodevichi Convent Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0006291/bio (839 words)

	Music under Soviet rule: Shostakovich, A Life Remembered
		Maxim Shostakovich to his father during rehearsals for the première of the Eleventh Symphony (according to Lev Lebedinsky)
		Sofia Gubaidulina, for instance, is baffled as to why Shostakovich joined the Party in 1960 and assumes that he was "unable to overcome the temptation of a 'carrot'".
		This is not the definitive Shostakovich biography and musicological study we're all waiting for; the author herself acknowledges that we'll have to wait a long time for that.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/review/ewrev.html (2087 words)

	CD Spotlight. Achingly Beautiful - Leila Josefowicz plays Shostakovich, recommended by Howard Smith. '... her tightrope ...
		Hope (also for Warner) has the advantage of Maxim Shostakovich at the podium while Chang turned in a performance, categorised by The Times as a 'rollercoaster ride'.
		From the brooding outset of this intense work [listen -- track 1, 0:03-1:50] Josefowicz's bleak, dark colouration is unerringly judged and alongside Chang's purer outlook, effective though that is, Warner's artist is much to be preferred.
		Shostakovich's melodic opening Nocturne is achingly beautiful when sculpted with such attention to the unsettling tide at its core.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2006/11/josefowicz1.htm (265 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Opinion - Shostakovich Gets Lost in His Own Biography
		The piece, begun when Shostakovich was in Leningrad and completed after he'd been evacuated in the midst of the Nazi siege, became an Allied rallying cry in the battle against fascism.
		But Shostakovich again fell afoul of the state when, in 1948, he and fellow Soviet composers Sergei Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian were attacked by Stalin's cultural commissar, Andrei Zhdanov, for not composing music that could be listened to by the Soviet masses.
		Shostakovich's life was simply too complex, too multifaceted, too shot through with political, cultural and historical meaning and metaphor to organize in any clearly defined, neatly delineated way.
	www.sptimesrussia.com /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=18959 (1208 words)

	Brilliant Shostakovich and Shchedrin Concertos from Marc-André Hamelin Review By Philip Gold
		You don't have to be a super virtuoso to play the Shostakovich First Piano Concerto (1933), but Hamelin’s remarkable articulation permits a faster tempo without the expected loss of clarity of line or flexibility of phrasing.
		Maxim Shostakovich was lucky enough to have a father do just this for him.
		Maxim premiered this work, Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto, on his nineteenth birthday in 1957, and won admission to the school of his choice.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/music/0504/classical/schostakovich.htm (845 words)

	The Prague Post Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maxim likes the feel the Prague Symphony Orchestra has for his father's music.
		Maxim Shostakovich is standing in the snow outside his dacha, about 50 kilometers from St. Petersburg, trying to get clear reception on his mobile.
		Maxim, 67, will be serving up a full dose of his father's music in two identical performances with the Prague Symphony Orchestra next week, conducting his second and 10th symphonies.
	www.praguepost.com /P03/2005/Art/1201/calen3.php (575 words)

	classical music - andante - 'it's in my blood' - maxim shostakovich on conducting his father's 'leningrad' symphony
		It was a rallying cry to Shostakovich's countrymen, telling the story of the siege and dwelling on patriotic themes before vividly imagining the German armies being routed from Russia.
		Maxim grew up to be a talented pianist and conductor, but, inevitably, he often has the 'son of' tag.
		It is a subject that Maxim feels passionately about: 'He hated the Communist philosophy but was forced by the rules of the game.' Those rules meant that Shostakovich had to make compromises, such as accepting government commissions.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25475 (1077 words)

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		Shostakovich was officially denounced for his use of dissonance and the licentiousness of the opera.
		From the mid-'50s to his death, Shostakovich wrote music that was increasingly brooding and experimental, finally free of optimistic facades.
		The other most highly regarded Shostakovich symphonies are the audacious first; the sixth, with a slow, impassioned first movement whose effect is diminished by the two comparatively trivial fast movements that follow; the weighty eighth and IOth; the jaunty ninth; and the brooding 13th and 14th, both having vocalists sing texts by leading 20th-century poets.
	www.azstarnet.com /public/packages/reelbook/153-4054.htm (1173 words)

	What Maxim Said
		It is not difficult to speculate that Maxim Shostakovich may indeed have been equivocal in his initial statements, they were made in the Soviet Union.
		Collaborates with Volkov on notes to Maxim's performance of the Nr 14 in New York.
		Shostakovich symposium at Russel Sage College, New York: "Mr Volkov wrote a book which is a very important book, and which revealed a whole aspect of the composer and his life in his homeland that was really unknown before."
	www.geocities.com /kuala_bear/features/pers-maxim.html (427 words)

	NEC and Pianist Tatyana Dudochkin Celebrate Shostakovich Centennial with Array of Stellar Performers, Student ...
		Tatyana Dudochkin, Chair of the NEC Preparatory School piano faculty, has invited an array of stellar NEC musicians and guests to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), February 12 at 7 p.m.
		Born in St. Petersburg, Dmitri Shostakovich was a child prodigy in piano and composition.
		Clearly the political pressure influenced Shostakovich’s musical idiom—resulting in a compositional language that was markedly conservative compared to that which his contemporaries outside Russia were employing.
	www.newenglandconservatory.edu /newsHightlights/2005/NECandPianistTatyanaDudochkinCelebrateShostakovichCentennialwithArrayofStellarPerforme.html (791 words)

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