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		Shayetet 13 Shayetet 13 (שייטת 13) is the Israeli naval commando elite SF unit.
		Symphony No. 13 (Haydn) Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 13 in D major was written in 1763.
		Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich) The Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor (Opus 113, subtitled Yevgeny Mravinsky refused to con...
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	Classic Records Catalog / ASD-3911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shostakovich's symphonic development shows a continuous vacillation between the natural expression of his own (somewhat introvert) genius and the undoubtedly sincere, if also very practical, desire to identify his music with the pressing political and historical events of his time.
		Shostakovich sets five poems by his outspoken contemporary Yevtushenko and the solo bass-baritone role is strengthened by the addition of a male chorus to share the lyrics and comment on or extend the narrative line of the soloist.
		Shostakovich draws too on the atmosphere of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (first a film score and later a cantata) both in the choral writing and in the heavier orchestral tuttis, with their pungent sonorities for the lower brass.
	www.classicrecs.com /ASD-3911.htm (1110 words)

	Great Masters: Shostakovich—His Life and Music (Detailed Description)
		But Shostakovich is also a figure whose story raises challenging and exciting issues that go far beyond music itself and touch on questions of conscience, of the moral role of the artist, of the plight of humanity in the face of total war and mass oppression, and of the inner life of history's bloodiest century.
		In them, Shostakovich makes clear that he was no hero or martyr—as a friend said, "he did not want to rot in a prison or a graveyard"but also shows that at the same time he was never willing to become a docile instrument of the Soviet regime.
		Shostakovich was not just the single most important composer of string quartets and symphonies from the 1920s to the 1970s but a witness to the rise and failure of Soviet communism, perhaps the defining event of the 20th century.
	www.teach12.com /ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/760.asp (995 words)

	Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No.2 & Symphony No.13 in B flat minor ‘Babi Yar’; Gidon Kremer (vln), Anatoli ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shostakovich’s Symphony No.13 ‘Babi Yar’ was given an emotionally charged performance from beginning to end by Vladimir Ashkenazy, Anatoli Kotscherga and the London Philharmonic Choir.
		The symphony is based on the notorious Nazi massacre and burial of 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar, a ravine to the north-west of the city of Kiev, on September 29 and 30, 1941.
		This is followed by the most haunting and poignant section of the symphony: the waltz of the ghostly string quartet, ending with a sparkling sound from the celeste and bell: this was the most intense and intimate point of the symphony, where Shostakovich appears to find peace.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2003/Feb03/Shostakovich233.htm (705 words)

	Classical Notes - Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, Classical Classics, Peter Gutmann
		Shostakovich's brilliance and originality emerged in his very first symphony, written at age 19 as a graduation exercise from the Leningrad music conservatory.
		But Shostakovich was the first great composer to mature under Communism, and ideology smothered his second and third symphonies, both of which, despite impressive quiet moments and suggestions of striking developments, devolve into drab descriptive choral endings commemorating the October Revolution and May Day.
		Shostakovich titled it “An Artist's Creative Response to Just Criticism” and announced its program as “the stabilization of a personality of a man with all his experiences.” He proclaimed: “There can be no greater joy for a composer than...
	www.classicalnotes.net /classics/shostafifth.html (1715 words)

	Shostakovich, Symphony No. 2 (1927)
		The prevailing view of the life and art of Shostakovich, is that both express the immense tragedy of the twentieth century.
		In fact, no irony can be found in either the music Shostakovich composed for his Second Symphony, or in Alexander Bezymenski's poem, "To October." And the music is certainly not hackwork.
		Within these the mature Shostakovich appears in much more than fleeting glimpses: the precocious 19-year-old whose First Symphony (1925) immediately entered the international repertoire proved, two years later, how thoroughly he had absorbed the new musical language of the international avant-garde, and how effectively he could use those elements that suited his purposes.
	www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/2000_01season/2000_12_13/shostakovich.cfm (484 words)

	Greg Sandow -- Shostakovich 13th Symphony in Baltimore
		Shostakovich was well known for his interest, musically and otherwise, in Jewish culture.
		Shostakovich wrote this work for a bass soloist and a chorus of basses, making all the singing dark and heavy; in Baltimore, the chorus had both tenors and basses, lightening and thus weakening the sound.
		In Shostakovich there are layers within layers: the nervousness, the forced applause, the private pain and private certainty that God has seen into his heart.
	www.gregsandow.com /shos13.htm (1256 words)

	Dmitry Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
		Dmitry Shostakovich was the last of the great composers who could be called both traditionalist and modern, and the first of the Russian composers who emerged because of, rather than despite, the Soviet regime.
		Shostakovich managed to keep the censors at bay even while striving for independence, but his style evolved into more introverted melancholy and nationalistic fervor during this period.
		His fifth symphony (1937), subtitled "A Soviet Artist's Reply to Just Criticism," is seen by most critics as a subtle satire of the politburo's requirements in its grandiose manner and the forced rejoicing of the final movement.
	www.barbwired.com /barbweb/programs/shostakovich_piano2.html (824 words)

	Musical Forms - Symphony
		While his first two symphonies shared a development from Haydn's, no.3 was a departure: its four movements were on an unprecedentedIy large scale, and its dedication to Napoleon (later erased) proclaimed that its grandeur and power celebrated personal courage and the unconquerable human spirit.
		Several symphonies, notably no.4, involve the cyclic recall of themes; this may be connected with the programmatic content that he is believed to have followed and which no doubt (his programmes were not generally disclosed) governs the unorthodox use of a slow despairing finale to his last symphony, no.6 ('Pathétique').
		In the Symphonie fantastique and Harold en Italie Berlioz sought to unite the Beethoven conception of the symphony with his own penchant for descriptive, literary-inspired music by means of a recurrent idée fixe.
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	Modern Classical Composers S
		Of the other symphonies, Symphony No. 4 (1936) is a large-scale work contain many memorable and dramatic moments (a fair share of terrifying ones too), but seems to be more of a mish-mash of ideas, a pastiche rather than a true symphony.
		Symphony No. 6 (1977) is a single movement work whose developmental ideas parallel the growth of a human embryo cell into a fully-fledged human being.
		Symphony No. 7 (1977), also a single movement work, was conceived not as a concert piece but for 'one man sitting in a chair, listening by himself'.
	music.pauljames.de /musss.html (3712 words)

	PowerPoint Presentation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1942, five years after the successful premiere of his fifth symphony, Shostakovich was awarded the highest honor in the entire Soviet Union, the Stalin Prize.
		Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4 wasn’t the first work that Shostakovich would place in a drawer.
		When Shostakovich did choose to make premieres, as his output grew more quartet centered, they were often explosive and contained yurodivy intentions that, had Stalin still been alive, would have cost him his life, and his family’s lives.
	home.earthlink.net /~michelleedelman/shostakovichpowerpoint_files/slide0025.htm (897 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shostakovich: Symphony No.11: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shostakovich's Symphony No.11 was inspired by what history books call the Revolution of 1905, a tumultuous time in Russian history sparked by the shooting of hundreds of demonstrators by the Tsar's troops on January 9 of that year (the original Bloody Sunday).
		Some Shostakovich symphonies (certainly the 1st, 5th, 8th and 10th, and perhaps the 6th and 9th) are heard in the concert hall much more frequently than this work, or for that matter, his other "war" symphony, the 7th ("Leningrad") Symphony.
		Because for all that this is by the great Shostakovich, and concerns itself with a weighty subject matter, and for all that it is played by the mighty LSO and is conducted by the legendary Rostropovich, none of that can disguise the fact that this is simply a very poor symphony indeed.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006C2D8 (1471 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He occupies a significant position in the 20th century as a symphonist and as a composer of chamber music, writing in a style that is sometimes spare in texture but always accessible, couched as it is in an extension of traditional tonal musical language.
		The fifteen symphonies of Shostakovich range in scope from the First Symphony of 1925, a graduation composition, to the embittered Thirteenth using Yevtushenko's poems.
		Shostakovich wrote an early concerto for piano, trumpet and strings, and a second piano concerto, a vehicle for his son Maxim, in 1957.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/shostakovich.html (510 words)

	Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . Dmitry Shostakovich \| PBS
		This was received favourably, by the state and indeed by Shostakovich's international public, and seems to have turned him from the theatre to the concert hall.
		There were to be no more operas or ballets, excepting a comedy and a revision of "Lady Macbeth"; instead he devoted himself to symphonies, concertos, quartets and songs (as well as heroic, exhortatory cantatas during the war years).
		Of the next four symphonies, no.7 is an epic with an uplifting war-victory programme (it was begun in besieged Leningrad), while the others display more openly a dichotomy between optimism and introspective doubt, expressed with varying shades of irony.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/education/shostakovich.html (494 words)

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		April: falls ill. Ali-Zade: Symphony No. 2 Ivanovs: Soviet injustice and deplore penal code revised to facilitate Convalesces in sanatorium in Poem of Struggle (for strings) the trend towards action against dissidents.
		Cello Concerto No. Tubin: Symphony No. 8 Pärt: rehabilitation of Stalin.
		No. 16 Solzhenitsyn arrested and and Ford agree SALT timetable at Autumn: rehearsals of The Nose expelled from the USSR.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/shoschron/tns6675.html (1390 words)

	DSCH 11 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Symphony No. 13 Babi Yar
		The serpentine tuba is beautifully shaped, the choir has a fearful, held-in tone but doesn't go too far in underscoring the real meaning of the line, and the central march ("We were not afraid of construction work in blizzards") is weary yet determined.
		Shostakovich said that in writing the symphony he was dealing with "public - specifically public - morality" and Polyansky seems to have taken this as his cue.
		Shostakovich is sensitive to every nuance of Yevtushenko's poems and it is important to be able to follow them.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs11op113.htm (745 words)

	98.7WFMT Radio Network \| Chicago Symphony Retrospective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chicago Symphony Orchestra recordings have earned fifty-six Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, including several Classical Album of the Year honors, as well as a number of Best Classical Performances in the choral, orchestral, instrumental and vocal soloist, and engineering categories.
		During its world tours, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is greeted by popular and critical acclaim, and the syndicated broadcasts have been heard by millions in every corner of the world.
		Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor (Sir Georg Solti) (The orchestra on tour in St.
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	INKPOT#83/I CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: Requiem Cycle - SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.13 "Babi Yar" - Inktroduction
		The tonality of this symphony lies in B-flat minor, a fairly rare key which does not immediately bring to mind another symphony in a similar key.
		It is Shostakovich's cry from the heart that speaks directly to present-day society; it is also a memorial for the dead of the Holocaust, and a comfort for the living mourning.
		Shostakovich is my favorite composer and I do not seek to disrespect the memory of the Jewish Holocaust, however I find the statement that you have made on your page insulting and arrogant.
	inkpot.com /classical/shostasym13.html (2951 words)

	Amazon.com: Shostakovich: Symphony No13, Op113; Yevtushenko: Babi Yar [Recitation]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 ~ Dmitry Shostakovich (Composer), et al
		Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op.
		Despite the official suppression of Yevtushenko's poem, and the forced revisions to it before it could be publically performed together with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 in B Flat minor, the censors did not contain the power of the music.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000SJ6?v=glance (1911 words)

	MobileGamer.biz :: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It's a description of the events that the symphony depicts and it is a tribute to Haitink and his orchestra that the experience of listening to the CD was horrifying.
		I played this symphony about a year ago, and it was a tough play, very long, but very fun.
		The horror of the time is all that this symphony is about and any listener can actually feel the history pass as they listen.
	www.mobilegamer.biz /store/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B00000IP3F (689 words)

	B.U. Bridge: Boston University community's weekly newspaper
		He recently discussed the genesis of the title poem and the symphony with the B.U. Bridge by telephone from New York.
		Although Shostakovich asked Yevtushenko for permission to set the poem to music, he admitted that he had already done so.
		What Shostakovich had originally conceived as a suite of songs became his Symphony XIII in five movements, one for each poem: "Babi Yar," "Humor," "In the Store," "Fears," and "A Career." The poems are sung by a male chorus and bass soloist.
	www.bu.edu /bridge/archive/2000/11-17/artspoem.html (1534 words)

	Shostakovich: Symphonies No 6 & 12 /Haitink \| Classical Music Online
		Shostakovich's Symphony No. 12 in D Minor, Op.
		While these are not Shostakovich's "best" symphonies, they are still first-rate works that demonstrate Shostakovich's fervent commitment to musical and emotional truth, even in what some might consider the propagandistic 12th symphony.
		I couldn't imagine anyone else making anything of the 12th symphony, and his 6th is more poised and...
	www.onlineclassical.com /ItemId/B00000IP37 (505 words)

	INKPOT#83/II CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: Requiem Cycle II - SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.13 "Babi Yar". Rintzler/Men of the ...
		Number 13 was the final symphony to be recorded in the cycle, and it gains in insight from the experience of the performers having already been exposed to the other symphonies.
		There is no attempt on Haitink's part to inject nobility in this portrayal of the Russian (note Russian, not Soviet) women stoically queuing up at the store, going about their daily chores as the unsung heroes and binding agents which hold their families together.
		In the last movement, "A career", Shostakovich returns to an orthodox style characteristic of the Russian nationalistic school with which listeners will be more familiar: dotted crochets in the choir line, quirky figures in the strings (especially the low strings), exotic percussion and constant changes of tempi and time signature.
	inkpot.com /classical/shosta13hait.html (882 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Still, Järvi's taut, imaginative conducting and the Gothenburg Symphony's lively playing gives the music--especially the first, third, and fourth movements--a sinister edge that creates an unmistakable sense of uneasiness.
		In Symphony No. 14 Järvi artfully balances the elements of gloom, defiance, and resignation that make up this stark yet at times serene work.
		Ljuba Kazarnovskaya and Sergei Leiferkus are up to the challenges of the more violent and vitriolic songs (Malagueña and At the Santé Jail), but they also sing with real tenderness in Shostakovich's poignant moments of reflection (The Suicide and O Delvig, Delvig!).
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7098 (311 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Dmitry Shostakovich
		Shostakovich, Dmitry (Dmitryevich) (b St Petersburg, 1906; d Moscow, 1975).
		It almost seemed that Shostakovich's career was at an end, and he withdrew his 4th Sym.
		It is apparent now that Shostakovich soon became disillusioned with the Soviet system and that the intensifying darkness and bitterness of his work reflect a spiritual misery connected with external events (his attributed memoirs, published in the West in 1979, give convincing proof of his attitude).
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/shostakovich.html (1891 words)

	DSCH 13 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Symphony No. 14
		In many ways Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 is one of his most brilliant creations.
		Whether one sees it as a reaction to impending death, or the exorcism of decades of having to witness it in its many forms, the No. 14 is a powerful statement that demands powerful execution.
		Britten's Nocturne is the perfect companion to Shostakovich's harrowing symphony, and Peter Pears the perfect compliment to the scintillating Russian pair.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs13op135a.htm (1501 words)

	Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906 - 1975) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dmitry Shostakovich belongs to the generation of composers trained principally after the Communist Revolution of 1917.
		The initial success of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, based on Leskov, and later revised as Katerina Ismailova, was followed by official condemnation, emanating apparently from Stalin himself.
		The Fifth Symphony, the immediate post-war Ninth and the Tenth of 1953 are most often heard, while Nos.
	www.naxos.com /composer/shostako.htm (493 words)

	Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shostakovich's father passed away in the early '20's, coupled with the onset of communism and oppression in Russia, began hard times for Dmitri
		His reasons for composing were also financial because with the death of his father, he had to support himself and his mother
		Shostakovich's ideals of humanitarianism made him successful in creating a musical language of immense emotional power.
	www.geocities.com /rmathney/shostakovich.html (258 words)

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