Laurel E. Fay
Autore di Shostakovich: a life
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Laurel E. Fay, a widely published writer on Russian and Soviet music, has been traveling to and studying in Russia since 1971. An independant scholar, she received a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She lives in Staten Island, New York.
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- female
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- Staten Island, New York, USA
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- 1
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- #214,931
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- 4.0
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- 7
Shostakovich's life is an interesting example of the contradictions of being an artist while living under authoritarian control. In August 1942, the city's surviving musicians performed his Seventh Symphony, written as a protest against fascism, in Nazi-besieged Leningrad, and it was triumphantly relayed to the German forces, who had been blasted previously to silence. As an aficionado of Shostakovich's entire oeuvre I found this biography invaluable.… (altro)