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This lecture will focus on one of the watershed moments of Soviet music history: the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and the composer’s path through reform to rehabilitation. The Shostakovich story was only the tip of the iceberg, and almost all Soviet composers had to adjust their aesthetic and style at this point, unless they were prepared to languish in obscurity and poverty.
David Matthews is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works. Born in London in 1943, David Matthew's desire to compose did not manifest itself until he was sixteen, and for a time he and his younger
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