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   Bob Whysman wrote:

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  I believe Shostakovich would have roared a deep Russian basso profondo roar of laughter at the irony that he was able to compose and have his music performed publicly in a totalitarian communist state, yet he cannot be performed in public in an apparently free country. In fact, I'm certain he would have written it into an opera. The quartet should, of course, have played a scaled-down version of Haydn's 'Farewell' symphony.

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