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