Not all persecuted composers are equal
mainFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Every composer suppressed by Stalin deserves to be remembered. Just how much musical attention they warrant is another matter.
Alexander Veprik (1889-1958) was a teacher at the Moscow Conservatoire who wrote in Jewish and Kyrgyz ‘national’ idioms. His Dances and Songs from the Ghetto was performed by Toscanini at Carnegie Hall in 1933, and a Symphonic Song was taken up the following year by Hermann Scherchen and Dmitri Mitropoulos. This was the peak of Veprik’s career….
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