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I'm merely the noisiest - and probably tallest - but there are people hereabouts who I dare say put me to shame in their knowledge and analytical capability when it comes to Mr Shostakovich.
Been too busy and distracted of late to check out the Myaskovsky, but I'll get to it.
TG
Since Tall Guy never updated this thread on any of his thoughts on Myaskovsky's music, here's some more Shostakovich bashing over @ TalkClassical to rouse TG's ire:
http://www.talkclassical.com/36419-composers-not-joke-about.html
PetrB:
"I voted Bruckner, Shostakovich and Glass, feeling some sympathy for them since their music is already a joke, so doesn't need more abuse than the poor composers built in to the music in the first place... to make jokes about these composers is like mocking the afflicted -- it is just beyond the pale."
SimonNZ:
"There's no need to joke about Shostakovich, because there's already so much humour in his music:
Look: here's some peasants being bayonetted by cossacks. Bwahahaha!
Run peasants!! Bwaaaaahahahaha!"
PetrB:
"Love the passage which illustrates the blood letting through the gutters on the sides of the bayonets while they're still in the Cossacks. Michael Torke would have called that "Bright Red Music."
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I listened to some Myaskovsky a few years back, & found it very pleasant, but never went back to it. It really doesn't matter who's best, the important thing is, what do you like, what does it for you. I'm very fond of the works of some very minor composers, & a lot of masterpieces do nothing for me. It's like what Kramer said in an episode of Seinfeld - you have to listen to the little guy in your head, the little guy knows.
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Feb 9, 2015 - 6:05 AM
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Tall Guy
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You know, I enjoyed reading their comments and may permanently defect over there. For example, the person who claimed to have named his parrot after James Horner.
Actually, I don't think I'll bother. "Composers not to joke about" - what kind of thread is that? Luckily, all our FSM ones are eminently sensible... like "What's your favorite letter in the word Jerry" - that sort of thing.
Still, I did get around to listening to Myaskovsky's sixth, and I have to report a modicum of apathy. It has an early 20th century sensibility that some around here will find appealing. Not my cup of tea, however. And that's okay, because as a wise man says above, we like what we like. Maybe if I persisted with it, or tried others of his works, I'd find something to really like, but I haven't the time or patience.
Having recently heard a variety of interpretations of Shostakovich's symphonies - notably Gergiev and Rozhdestvensky - I'm as convinced as ever that he was the greatest symphonist of the 20th century, and in fact one of the most important public figures (not just as a composer, but as a symbol) of the same era.
TG
By the way, it's R. No, hang on, I can't just pick one. My top five are R, J, Y, E and, ummm....
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