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Damin

So, who else can't help but sing along?

Silas Elliott

Such an excellent song! Kind of song I'd put at the end of a film, during the credits, lovely melody.. great stuff.

TheRobotarchie

worth reading is Shostakovichs' autobiography, it really is grim and a great insight into why you might want to hack the czar and his family into small pieces and shove them down a coal mine. It is als oa great insight into why you'd pull the trigger on Stalin given the opportunity.

Trey Murphy

@carlrichter99 to be incredibly honest, I don't know why they named it like they did- however, those three items are the names of the three bones that sit directly behind the eardrum and help with hearing- coincidence? I think not...

carlrichter99

...Well, Stalin's changing mind from minute to minute was really a problem for the soviet people and members of the communist party. Even short before his death, when he was lying on the floor in his room, nobody dared to call a doctor because they thought he could still be alive and send them to prison because they called the "great leaders" health and strength into question.

carlrichter99

But why "hammer, stirrup and anvil"? Wouldn't musical instruments be more appropriate? I would even understand if they had taken sickle and hammer.

henkin

One minute it was okay to be atonal and polyrhythmic and the next it was a sign of petit bourgeois decadence. So being a composer was a game of cat and mouse, trying to second-guess what would meet with the great leader's approval. Shades of the Pet Shop Boys we've been told in this one -- Boff does his Neil Tennant impression, and Neil is let loose in his enormous string library.

henkin

A song about the perils of writing music under a repressive regime -- in this case Shostakovich writing music under Stalin. Stalin was a fickle master, which isn't necessarily what you want from your dictators -- a bit of consistency would be nice. Half the problem was he was so full of his "out with the old and in with the new" rhetoric that he never really bothered to decide what the new actually was; apart from in the most abstract of terms.

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