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DDS at 100.(MUSIC)
THE music world loves an anniversary, and the big one this year, of course, is Mozart's: the 250th anniversary of his birth. But there is another one going on as well: the 100th of Shostakovich's birth. You may not think that composers of this stature would have to be specially celebrated. But there it is.
Shostakovich fever has arrived in New York. The wizardly Russian conductor Valery Gergiev is doing all 15 symphonies, with two different orchestras. And the Emerson String Quartet--maybe the most acclaimed chamber ensemble in the world--is doing the complete string quartets. There are 15 of those, too.
I have frequently noted two phenomena in music: ...
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