Книга: Wendy Lesser «Music for Silenced Voices»
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Производитель: "Неизвестный" Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the condemnation of the Soviet authorities. `Music for Silenced Voices` looks at Shostakovich through the back door, as it were, of his fifteen quartets, the works which his widow characterized as a `diary, the story of his soul`. The silences and the voices were of many kinds, including the political silencing of adventurous writers, artists, and musicians during the Stalin era; the lost voices of Shostakovich`s operas (a form he abandoned just before turning to string quartets); and, the death-silenced voices of his close friends, to whom he dedicated many of these chamber works. Wendy Lesser has constructed a fascinating narrative in which the fifteen quartets, considered one at a time in chronological order, lead the reader through the... ISBN:978-0-300-18159-3 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2012)
ISBN: 978-0-300-18159-3 |
Wendy Lesser
Wendy Lesser (born 1952) is an American
Lesser is the founding editor of the arts journal "
Works
*"The Life Below the Ground: A Study of the Subterranean in Literature and History" (1987)
*"His Other Half: Men Looking at Women Through Art" (1991)
*"Pictures at an Execution" (1994)
*"A Director Calls" (1997)
*"The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters" (1999)
*"Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering" (2002)
*"The Pagoda in the Garden" (2005)
*"Room for Doubt (2007)
External links
* [http://www.otherpress.com Other Press]
* [http://www.threepennyreview.com "The Threepenny Review"]
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0706,weinstein,75713,10.html "Freeze framed: Wendy Lesser's essays break emotional ice"] review of "Room for Doubt" by Emily Weinstein at
Источник: Wendy Lesser
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