Usually my eyes glaze over when I read concert notes, but today's concert notes breathed life into two musical icons: Brahms and Shostakovitch. This is some of what I read. Brahms' father was a musician (French horn and double bass) and his mother (17 years older than his father) was a seamstress. Their house was described as representing "a bare and repulsive poverty." From the age of 13 he supported his family by playing the piano nightly at "the drinking and wenching dives of the notorious St. Pauli area."
The notes on Shostakovitch suggested this is life in the Soviet Union was helped b/c his grandfather had been arrested in connection with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II and he had relatives who had distinguished themesleves in the revolutionary [Bolshevik] cause.
By the way the concert was good - possibly better than the very readable notes.
The notes on Shostakovitch suggested this is life in the Soviet Union was helped b/c his grandfather had been arrested in connection with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II and he had relatives who had distinguished themesleves in the revolutionary [Bolshevik] cause.
By the way the concert was good - possibly better than the very readable notes.
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