From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10600 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, January 25 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10600 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Extended for a day! Get Your $50 Reward... ["Amazing Deals" Subject: Extended for a day! Get Your $50 Reward... Extended for a day! Get Your $50 Reward... http://southwestairliine.shop/lZkAcCE2xh93j6o-Vj4x2iHxSqjav1nYXAJJ-1hPRAungWvjOg http://southwestairliine.shop/VVlwertgF5Al5JmFWs1NZU4oUjqmuN4QKkzFHSuxCEpW-CkCIg e Second Symphony, and Livre pour orchestre and a Cello Concerto which followed, were composed during a particularly traumatic period in Lutos?awski's life. His mother died in 1967, and in 1967b70 there was a great deal of unrest in Poland. This sprang first from the suppression of the theatre production Dziady, which sparked a summer of protests; later, in 1968, the use of Polish troops to suppress the liberal reforms in Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring, and the Gda?sk Shipyards strike of 1970bwhich led to a violent clampdown by the authorities, both caused significant political and social tension in Poland. Lutos?awski did not support the Soviet regime, and these events have been postulated as reasons for the increase in antagonistic effects in his work, particularly the Cello Concerto of 1968b70 for Rostropovich and the Royal Philharmonic Society. Indeed, Rostropovich's own opposition to the Soviet regime in Russia was just coming to a head (he shortly afterwards declared his support for the dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn). Lutos?awski himself did not hold the view that such influences had a direct effect on his music, although he acknowledged that they impinged on his creative world to some degree. In any case, the Cello Concerto was a great success, earning both Lutos?awski and Rostropovich accolades. At the work's premiC(re with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Bliss presented Rostropovich with the Royal Philharmonic Society's gold medal. In 1973, Lutos?awski attended a recital given by the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with the pianist Sviatoslav Richter in Warsaw; he met the singer after the concert and this inspired him to write his extended orchestral song Les Espaces du somm ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10600 ***********************************************