Walt Disney and the Seven Soviets
- robcat2075
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c. 1959 Shostakovich was visiting Disneyland as part of a cultural exchange with other Soviet composers/musicians.
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[url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=939604421543374&set=a.661115342725618]From Facebook, left to right; Shostakovich, Fikret Amirov, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Walt Disney, Konstantin Dankevich, Tikhon Khrennikov, unknown, and Boris Yarustovsky. Anyone know who unknown is? Yarustovsky wrote extended comments on the venture but I can't find a free online version
The LP album under Shostakovich's arm has a label that seems to say "Good Time Jazz".
In return, the Soviets got Roy Harris, Peter Mennin, Ullyses Kay and Roger Sessions.
Mr. Silly Symphony meets Mr. Not-so-silly Symphony.
I can recall when those glasses seemed like an example of embarrassing Soviet backwardness... and now they're in style!
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Fun fact: while searching to see if pic this had been posted before, I found that "Shostakovich" outnumbers "Shostakovitch" by 10 to 1 on this forum.
Wikipedia and Google prefer "ich" but my browser spelling corrector wants me to use "itch".
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The LP album under Shostakovich's arm has a label that seems to say "Good Time Jazz".
In return, the Soviets got Roy Harris, Peter Mennin, Ullyses Kay and Roger Sessions.
Mr. Silly Symphony meets Mr. Not-so-silly Symphony.
I can recall when those glasses seemed like an example of embarrassing Soviet backwardness... and now they're in style!
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Fun fact: while searching to see if pic this had been posted before, I found that "Shostakovich" outnumbers "Shostakovitch" by 10 to 1 on this forum.
Wikipedia and Google prefer "ich" but my browser spelling corrector wants me to use "itch".
- Posaunus
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[quote="robcat2075"]Fun fact: while searching to see if pic this had been posted before, I found that "Shostakovich" outnumbers "Shostakovitch" by 10 to 1 on this forum.
Wikipedia and Google prefer "ich" but my browser spelling corrector wants me to use "itch".[/quote]
Fun memory of interesting times past.
It's actually Дмитрий Шостакович !
Wikipedia and Google prefer "ich" but my browser spelling corrector wants me to use "itch".[/quote]
Fun memory of interesting times past.
It's actually Дмитрий Шостакович !
- robcat2075
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Apropos of Disney and Shostakovich... a 1939 Soviet cartoon for which Shostakovich wrote most(?) of the music. (Boosey & Hawkes notes "Score for the cartoon-film by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky")
Various commentaries say he wrote this mini-opera for the cartoon but it is also performable as a stage work.
I have trouble watching Soviet-bloc animation. It is like they were paid to make them long.
"The Silly Little Mouse"
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Various commentaries say he wrote this mini-opera for the cartoon but it is also performable as a stage work.
I have trouble watching Soviet-bloc animation. It is like they were paid to make them long.
"The Silly Little Mouse"
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- Crazy4Tbone86
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Two photos with Shostakovich not holding or smoking a cigarette. Rare indeed.