Steve Schwartz wrote:
>I like both the Bartok and the Shostakovich myself. However, the
>Bartok parody of Shostakovich misses the point that the Shostakovich is
>itself a parody. Bartok doesn't get the joke, and apparently most of
>the negative critics of the Seventh don't get it either. Shostakovich
>uses as a German "victory" march the song from Lehar's Merry Widow, "I'm
>Going to Maxim's" (don't know what it is in German), an obvious reference
>to the German occupation of France.
You mean it's not a reference to Dmitri's son?
Walter Meyer