Dmitri Shostakovich filmed in 1975 during rehearsals

Dmitri Shostakovich filmed in 1975 during rehearsals

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[zevnikov]

Dmitri is the most bigest musical genius of all times. For me, he is on the top of musical world.

[Phusics]

OK, because there is not much to translate I'll try it :-) but sorry for my bad english:

Shosta(0:00-0:27): It depends on the talent of each student. Because if a person has no [musical] aptitude then even Beethoven himself can

teach him and it won't make sense. But if people are talented, if people are sensitive and have a quick perception then of course it is very pleasant.....

Maxim, his son(0:28): ..it was pleasant to teach them.

Shosta(0:30-0:31): ...was pleasant to teach;

[fool1shmortal]

Is there an article about what the concert is about.

[Gazpacho8]

@themouseofevil Definitely not, he had lung cancer. He was probably already very ill here. He had a lot of health problems, he had polio, you can see how his right arm is disabled and he uses his left to help it when shaking hands, he had two heart attacks in the 60s and broke both legs in a fall.

[Gazpacho8]

@gregapage I kept pausing it there trying to get a look at him without the distortion of the glasses, I don't know why they never photographed him without them, he was obviously VERY near sighted.

[mrvishal1000]

wow i just cry when i see him...

[tanksearcher]

He is the greatest artistic genius of the 20th century.  No one else is even close. His work will only increase in value to humanity over time.

[koreankayagum]

@petezilla Also, the purveyors of crappy music must sense that it's garbage, even if it's on an unconscious level. That's why they focus so heavily on lights, dancers, T and A, etc. to attract/keep people's attention and confuse them.

[koreankayagum]

@petezilla Unfortunately people are inundated with crap from a young age. It's hard to get away from radios and piped-in music everywhere, not to mention the difficulties of adolesence, when kids are the most impressionable. This is not to slight all pop music, as I like some of it. In this country jazz and classical are often seen as something highbrow/snobbish. Kids should be taught about these two forms from a young age, and I don't mean just one little music appreciation class.

[peppersax]

@missjacko1 Amen!

[petezilla]

@peppersax Yea because Lady Gaga is average, and people are obsessed with thinking that average is greatn and the rest is kookery or crap old people and nerds and gay people listen to. How ironic that the discrimination Shostakovich suffered in Communist Russia continues presently in a converse apathetic/populist form of descrimination in Democratic America!

[MultiGargiulo]

@formeliandialogue What are you saying? that man is Gennady Rozhdestvensky!