Pic of the month: What tf does a composer have to do….?

Pic of the month: What tf does a composer have to do….?

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norman lebrecht

November 13, 2018

© 2009 Irina Antonovna Shostakovich/Artistic Director Oksana Dvornichenko

 

Captions:

1 Which is it, Svetlanov: The dog ate your score, or you left it with Brezhnev’s girlfriend?

2 They are serving WHAT for lunch in the canteen?

3 You’re telling me Mourinho’s still manager of Man. United?

Comments

  • Eric says:

    Look, Dmitri, it’s a fine way to sign off your symphonic cycle, but you do know that ‘Tristan’ is still in copyright, yes?

  • John Borstlap says:

    My fly on the wall – she’s very old now – tells me that was because DS suddenly remembered he was cooking some milk at home while his wife was on an expedition to find some eggs in town.

  • Brian says:

    Sorry to bother you, Mitya, but I’ve just checked my phone and I thought you’d like to know Zenit just missed TWO penalties. Can you believe that?

  • Doug says:

    “I’m sorry maestro….the West is full of useful idiots too.”

  • Jason says:

    Dmitri, comrade Stalin hates your latest symphony….you know what that means?!

  • Kananpoika says:

    “But Dmitri…also missing with Gauk’s suitcase was his BEST pair of shoes….”

  • David K. Nelson says:

    He had just been informed that it was David Oistrakh’s 59th birthday — and here he had gone and written the Violin Concerto No. 2 thinking it was a lovely 60th birthday present. “Damn, now I’ll have to compose a violin sonata or something just so I’m not the only one at the party without a 60th birthday present for him.”

  • Saul Davis says:

    “What do you mean, I am Jewish?” My family, Shostak, is related to him, through his ancestry from Belarus. No documentation exists thus far, but that doesn’t matter, because these things were hidden.

  • Spenser says:

    “I coulda had a V-8!”

  • Dima Schmaltzavitsky says:

    Can’t they read my metronome marking? Its 144 to the half note! Not 144 to the quarter note!!!! My music is not meant to be comfortable!!!

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