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From: dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Tone poems
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 12:03:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 12:03:10 1985
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Summary: Shostakovitch's war-time symphonies

In article <478@petrus.UUCP> karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) writes:
>I'm not sure if Shostakovitch would qualify; in my mind his middle
>symphonies conjure up vividly effective images of the horrors of a nuclear
>war, but knowing ahead of time that he wrote them during The Great Patriotic
>War tends to color my interpretation.
  
One of the beauties of textless music is that it can inspire widely
differing associations in the minds of listeners.  It doesn't seem too
likely, though, that Shostakovitch, writing during WWII, intended to
evoke images of nuclear war!