Shostakovich- Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, op. 70 Part III
The third and fourth movements of Shostakovich’s 9th symphony contrast sharply with one another.
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The third and fourth movements of Shostakovich’s 9th symphony contrast sharply with one another.
I like Star Wars. As I often do, today I was staring out of my window at the mountains behind my office building and got to thinking about things that don’t add up.
Everyone knows that a homing beacon was planted on the Millenium Falcon that allowed the Death Star to find the hidden Rebel Base on Yavin 4. What I can’t find (anywhere on the internet, so it must not exist…) is anything saying that the homing beacon was removed.
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The second movement of Shostakovich’s 9th.
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Soviet authorities asked Shostakovich to compose a tremendous 9th symphony- the symbolism of which was not lost on Stalin and his cronies. Nazi Germany had just been crushed between the Red and Allied armies, and the new symphony was supposed to be a triumphant monument to Soviet power and achievement.

The nationalistic, Bohemian Furiant dance forms the basis for the exciting third movement.
I’ve got another article up on MakeTechEasier. As the title suggests, it contains 5 Ways to Un-Minimize Windows in OS X.
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