"Muddle Instead of Music: On the Opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" (Russian: Сумбур вместо музыки – Об опере «Леди Макбет Мценского уезда»)...

"Muddle Instead of Music" that denounced the composer and targeted his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Despite this attack and the political climate of...

the Soviet Union by the reference to the editorial Muddle Instead of Music written by the leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin himself in the Soviet newspaper...

Stalin but actually authored by David Zaslavsky) in Pravda, titled "Muddle Instead of Music", it was banned in the Soviet Union for almost thirty years, until...

published an editorial titled "Muddle Instead of Music", complaining that the opera was a "deliberately dissonant, muddled stream of sounds ...[that] quacks...

August 2002 Work details, note by Gerard McBurney Animated score on YouTube, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly Portal: Classical music v t e...

representing Shostakovich himself that recurs in many of the composer's works. Boris Schwarz (Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia, 1972) commented on...

– Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade January 28 – An article "Muddle Instead of Music" is published anonymously, almost certainly...

Pravda articles "Muddle Instead of Music" and "Balletic Falsity": The resolution on 23rd April 1932 appealed to the consciousness of the Soviet artist...

Sikorski. "Shostakovich: 24 Piano Preludes Op.34 / Piano Quintet Op.57: TRANSART TR162 [BBR] December 2010 MusicWeb-International". Portal: Classical Music...

Cherie (10 March 2011). "Maxim Shostakovich Champions His Famous Father's Music in the U.S. : People.com". Archived from the original on 10 March 2011....

to compose the Piano Quintet out of his desire to enrich the field of chamber music with elements of symphonic music. Enthusiasm for the Piano Quintet...

stylistically aligned to the legacy of the Rimsky-Korsakov school. Fanning writes that the professionalism of the music, particularly its orchestration,...

symphony to chamber orchestra. Around the same time the infamous Muddle Instead of Music article was published in press, condemning Shostakovich's opera...

24 played by Brodsky. Her performance was part of a concert of Soviet music held under the auspices of the American Russian Institute, which sought to...

performance takes approximately 2 hours and 32 minutes. It is one of several examples of music written in all major and/or minor keys. Each piece is in two...

symphony to chamber orchestra. Around the same time the infamous Muddle Instead of Music article was published in press, condemning Shostakovich's opera...

the end of the first act that the opera would become too long and unwieldy, and also that its mocking text and the bitter irony of the music would not...

premiere of The Iron Curtain, a 1948 spy film and the first anti-Soviet Hollywood film of the Cold War era. The film featured the music of several Soviet...

veto by a vote of 76 to 19. Born: Troy Donahue, U.S. actor and singer; in New York City (d. 2001) An article "Muddle Instead of Music" was published anonymously...

interest in teaching piano to children or composing music for pedagogical use. The impetus for the creation of the Children's Notebook was personal: it was intended...

apparent in such songs as "Mother Is Very Muddle-Headed" and "There Is Not a Drop of Oil in the Dish". The popularity of these songs reflected the fact that...

an official criticism of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Pravda in 1936, under the title "Muddle instead of Music". The model for Soviet...

Muzyka in volume 42 of its collected works edition of Shostakovich's music. It was republished by DSCH Publishers in 2019 in volume 36 of its new complete...

character: it includes the village of Chiddingly and a collection of hamlets: the largest of these being Muddles Green and Thunder's Hill; others being...

The music of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is primarily composed by Bear McCreary. The series is based...

"blushing crow" instead of "crushing blow", or "runny babbit" instead of "bunny rabbit". While spoonerisms are commonly heard as slips of the tongue, they...

robbed by big-budget bombast and a muddled screenplay." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating...

The music of The Lord of the Rings film series was composed, orchestrated, conducted and produced by Howard Shore between 2000 and 2004 to support Peter...

that." According to a BBC review of his 2012 album Songs, the record was a muddled attempt by Rusko to realign his music with a "Jamaican inheritance" and...