Interesting site about Shostakovich and other Russians

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james
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Interesting site about Shostakovich and other Russians

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http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/musov.html

The site "Music under Soviet rule" is by the late Ian McDonald who also wrote the Beatles book "Revolution in the Head" ..

Lots of reading !!

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fergus
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Thank you for that James; duly noted!
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That is a terrific site James, thanks for letting us know about it. I read this piece of sad news when I visited it for the first time this evening:

"We are very sad to announce the death of Ian MacDonald, the creator of the musov site. His contributions will long be appreciated and his genius missed."
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Seán wrote:That is a terrific site James, thanks for letting us know about it. I read this piece of sad news when I visited it for the first time this evening:

"We are very sad to announce the death of Ian MacDonald, the creator of the musov site. His contributions will long be appreciated and his genius missed."

....and he left a wonderful legacy with his information on that site.
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