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Subject:
Khatchaturian's Second Symphony
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Bernard Chasan <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:47:28 -0500
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Who knew?  I heard it this afternoon on WGBH - the work is 60 years old,
the recording about fifty years old, but available on cd.  It is a long
work of great expressiveness and eloquence- very reminiscent of Shostakovich,
yet with a voice of its own.

Bernard Chasan

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