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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now I have two great book recommendations from this thread, especially the one about Shostakovich!  As a cellist and pianist, Russian composers are some of my favorites.  I wonder if the emphasis on math/science over humanities is why younger poeple don't know much about history.  Not knowing Lenin, Stalin or Marshall is pretty scary.  Did you know you can visit the George Marshall house in Leesburg?It's a nice day trip from DC.  I wish we had statesmen like Marshall in these crazy times.  [/quote]

I'm the PP who recommended the Shostakovich book- I have a thing for Russian composers too! I member playing his Festive Overture in high school band, it was always one of my favorites.

I read another book recently called Secondhand Time:The Last of the Soviets, that I also learned a lot from.  It was a collection of interviews/narratives in post-Soviet Russia that the author had collected over a couple decades.  It is rather long and it took me a little while to get into it, but overall it was really interesting.[/quote]

Thank you very much for another recommendation.  Russians composers are the best.  [/quote]

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