tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1164817479494395792006-11-29T16:24:00.000Z2006-11-29T16:24:00.000Z2006-11-29T16:24:00.000Z"...Shostakovich's wider reputation through strategically placed premieres and recordings in the 1960's..."<BR/><BR/>Daniel, perhaps you or someone else should also look into, and compare, this to the premieres and recordings of works by Penderecki and Lutoslawki in the 1980's (all of Lutoslawki's three late Symphonies were commissioned by different major American orchestras). <BR/><BR/>Furthermore, Rostropovich had a huge role in the introduction of large amounts of Eastern European new music in "the West" in the late 1970s, 80s, and early to mid 90s; and I don't believe that 'Western commerce' informed all of his programming decisions.<BR/><BR/>*<BR/><BR/>(When I heard violist John Graham, and his colleague, give the American premiere of Shostakovich's very late Viola Sonata, at Miller Theater, Columbia U., in Jan or Feb 1977, I don't recall specific commercial backing, or an immediately available, follow-up LP. And Daniel, I will assume that you have viewed Sokurov and Aranovitch's film, Sonata for Viola, on Shostakovich. That poetic film was censored upon its initial release in Leningrad in 1980 or 81.)Garth Trinklhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952837886402774649noreply@blogger.com