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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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English National Opera Guide : Musorgsky : Boris Godunov (1982) — Collaboratore — 16 copie

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Staten Island, New York, USA

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Laurel E. Fay has gone back to primary archives for this authentic post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's outstanding but tumultuous career under Soviet rule: Letters, concert programs, reviews, newspaper articles, and diaries of Shostakovich's contemporaries. Despite deprivations during the Nazi invasion and severe scrutiny under Stalin's reign, he composed his striking music.
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)
 
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jwhenderson | 1 altra recensione | Feb 21, 2022 |
Not a particularly 'warm' biography, all things considered, but informative and balanced, particularly about his relations with the political structures under which he lived and worked.
 
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Bibliophial | 1 altra recensione | Jan 6, 2007 |

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