Representative appearances

• The Show People Podcast Live: Sir Ian McKellen (Part One)

  music by Tchaikovski?

• Tyler Cowen On Choral Music

  So you can't follow achaikovski piece in the same way you can a Beethoven piece and it becomes maybe weirder and more mystical by the time you get to Griabin and just dreamy and then after the boleviks come there's so much suppression and you have some great composers Shastikovich Schnitka but they're fighting very hard to compose it all and Schnitka leaves for Germany of all placeska actually was a vulgar German he grew up speaking a language called vulgar a German, which is a weird dialect of German. He tried to compose under the Soviets. He did quite a bit. It was often out of fashion. He faced a lot of risks and he ended up being able to leave the country. And Shastikovich paid heed to Stalin, which he was criticized for. But we learned later on he was not so patriotic after all, and actually secretly viewed a lot of the music as being critical of Stalin.