This is a blog for the community of Rhetoric 108—On the Philosophy of Music: "Music to Hear"—in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2011 and Fall 2011.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Dionysus in Shostakovich
This opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, offers one possibility of Dionysian-inspired tragedy in the 20th Century. I am partial to the audio version conducted by famed cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and I find the visual interpretation here quite strange. Yet, this is a remarkable musical work that deserves a little attention.
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