Shostakovich's 'The Second Waltz', and Yes, An Early Slavic Christmas Carol

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'The Second Waltz' ~ Dmitri Shostakovich

Nová Radosť Stala: "A New Joy Has Been Revealed"~ Roždestvo Tvoje: "Your Birth"

Anna Servická, Anna Poráčová, Monika Soroková - Rusínska koleda / Nová radosť stala, Roždestvo tvoje

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1. My college alma mater holds a symposium each year that rotates among the various departments

such as history, math, science, sociology, etc. In the mid-1990s the symposium was on Shostakovich. It included lectures about how Shostakovich was stymied by Stalin, along with musical and theatrical performances. In association with the symposium they showed the Russian version of Hamlet which had the score provided by Shostakovich. I tried, but could only handle the first act of Hamlet. The sets were sparse, but the score was great. I just couldn't handle reading English subtitles for a black-and-white movie made in the 1950s. On a positive note, I went with three of my friends and we had a good meal at the German restaurant in Walburg (pop. 300) afterwards and went rolling afterwards.

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2. Great score👍, sparse sets 🙄, subtitles 🥴, German meal and carousing 🥳.

Hi there, TT.
Think of you always.

Appreciate your contributing posts.

One day, hopefully soon, theme song: 'Looks Like We Made It', yes?

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3. Did you get all the corresponding emojis? The last one showed up as a question mark and not

this 🥳. It lost the effect.

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4. It came through correctly. I was a little bit more bewildered by the one with the moustache. nt

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5. My British step-dad and the word moustache. 😆

That thar was a face with a wrinkled up grimace as in ow, subtitles. 😘

(Or so I thot..)