David Fanning
(ed.).
Shostakovich Studies.
Cambridge University
Press.
[280pp.
Publisher's recommended price:
£37.50.]
This review, featuring a
rebuttal of Richard Taruskin's polemical
contentions about the Fifth
Symphony made in the above book, has been
combined with another article,
"Fay versus Shostakovich: whose stupidity?", along
with extensive
additional material, into a single essay "Naive
Anti-Revisionism: the
academic misrepresentation of Dmitri Shostakovich". This appears
in Allan
B. Ho and Dmitry Feofanov's anthology
Shostakovich Reconsidered
(Toccata Press, 1998).Those interested
in reading the original review
will find it in DSCH Journal No. 5 (Summer
1996). The original
version of "Fay versus Shostakovich" can be
found in East European
Jewish Affairs Vol. 26 No. 2 (Winter 1996),
available from the
Institute for Jewish Policy Research, 79 Wimpole Street,
London W1M 7DD.
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