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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