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