RENEGADE FOLLIES AND ENCHANTMENTS TO ANNOY, BEWILDER, OR INSPIRE - DEPENDING ON THE OBSERVER *** True rebels have always believed in individual autonomy and free choice in thought and purpose. Real rebels are Promethean. The left has always stood for little more than coercion for the sake of power and bogus "moral" authority.
Probably not since Beethoven have two simple notes been so skillfully dissected as in this excerpt from the finale to Shostakovich’s 4th symphony.
The — very abstract — piece was kept from public performance for a long time because, as in all communist enterprises, individual creative genius is discouraged (the composer could have ended up in the gulag).
‘One of the 20th centuries greatest composers.
Bourgeoisie Capitalist Counter-revolutionary Enemy of the People Responsible, upstanding, reckless, chaotic, partially erudite, and fully bizarre, but contemplative in romantic illusions.
Generalized Defenses of American Freedom...
