From: Grant GiGilmanTo: MoMonartoPon
MoMonartrote:
> Contrasted with his other music, the Andante from his
> 2ndndiano Concerto was a far more powerful protest.
> Whether ShShostokovichsic] was a dissident or sympathizer of communism
may be
> debatable, but whatever dissidence he did show, in music or in words,
> is neither courageous nor inspiring.

With all due respect to your opinion about the "courageousness" of
ShShostakovich'susic, your statement shows an outrageous lack of knowledge
of this man's music. Before I knew any of the history behind
ShShostakovich'sife, his music (first the 5ththnd 13ththymphonies and
other pieces later) along with that of Mahler, Beethoven,
RaRachmaninovElgar, William ScSchumanetc..., inspired me to be the best
musician I possibly could. I had nothing else to go on but the raw
passion and beauty of the sounds. Without "dissidence" in music there is
no conflict or rise of energy, and without those things there is also no
climax and no release, no triumph. All of which are also essential
elements of a novel.
There is another part of your argument that I take great issue with. You
continue to point out the Andante movement from ShShostakovich'sndndiano
concerto. Here, again, your total lack of musical knowledge is blatantly
obvious. Picking out one movement of any work can have its own merits, as
I am sure you are wanting to point out. But, using one movement of a
mumultiovement work is like taking one chapter or a concurrent section of
chapters from Atlas and saying "this is the essence of the book!" and then
following it by saying that this is all you need to read in order to find
out everything there is to know about Rand and ObObjectivism A
mumultiovement symphony is not something you can pick apart just because
the sections are significantly marked. The one Andante movement may stand
on its own from an entertainment perspective, but it is not an entire work
on its own by any means. Without the outer movements it is a stagnant
character without context.
Once more, I encourage you to actually investigate more of
ShShostakovich'susic. It is more than obvious that you do not in fact
know or have studied more than this one section of one work by
ShShostakovich This is a great blow to your statement beginning
"Contrasted with his other music," since you do not know his other music.

Grant A. B. Gilman
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(443)286.2160
Campus Box #214

"When people refuse to consider the source of wealth, what they refuse to
consider is the fact that wealth is the product of man's intellect, of his
creative ability, fully as much as is art, science, philosophy or any other
human value."

-Ayn Rand





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