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  1. Here is music turned deliberately inside out in order that nothing will be reminiscent of classical opera, or have anything in common with …
  2. Not since the time of Berlioz has a symphonic composer created such a stir. In far-away America, great conductors vie with each other for t…
  3. 'Football is the ballet of the masses.'
  4. He did not write about this war and that revolution, but about war and revolution in general, the state of mind and emotion, not facts.
  5. 'Beethoven was a revolutionary. If you read his letters, you will realize how much he wished to arouse the public by his new musical ideas.'
  6. Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrate…
  7. 'I shall never forget that event - a boy was brutally killed by a Cossack with his sabre.'
  8. He is thinner, taller, younger - more boyish-looking - than expected, but he is also the shyest and most nervous human being I have ever se…

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