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The Rhetoric of Blippity-Bloop

When Shostakovich visited America and Europe as part of a Soviet delegation in 1959, he was repeatedly asked about his opinion of the then-accepted modernist avant-garde of atonal academic serialism. Here is one such response, given to a Polish journalist … Continue reading

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