John Smyth ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>... I would call Hindemith a thinking man's Shostakovich. You shouldn't
>have to lift one intellectual muscle while listening to this music--just
>sit back and wallow in the swaggering polyphony.
Intersting comparison, but I don't think I understand it. Are you
suggesting that Shostakovich didn't think, or that he is for the
non-thinking person?
And why Shostakovich? He's not the first (or the 10th) person I'd think of
to compare to Hindemith.
Deryk Barker
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