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to carry great responsibility on his
shoulders. It is the extent and weight
of this responsibility that causes you to
feel the need to regress into a state of
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Darkness: "[You need to try] ... find-
ing room in yourself for a tiny spark
of divinity to take hold. You will be
able to progress toward this if you
begin a disciplined practice of daily
meditation."
two Grammy Awards for its recording
of his countrymen, has been forced to
of Shostakovich's string quartets, and
resign himself."
it's the Shostakovich No. 8 that has the
most overtly autobiographical ele-
Smetana And Shubert
ments of the three on the Ann Arbor
program, Drucker said.
Of the other two pieces on the
"It was written in 1960, after [the
Emerson program, Smetana's work
composer] visited Dresden, which was
memorializes the composer's first wife
then in East Germany. He was very
in its elegiac second movement.
affected by the signs of devastation he
In the quartet's final movement,
saw there," Drucker said.
Smetana depicts in musical
"He dedicated this quartet
The E merson
terms the realization that he
`To the Memory of the Victims String Quartet:
was going deaf, complete
of Fascism,' but we also -feel he
Left to right,
with a musical depiction of
was identifying with the Jews
violist Lawrence the whine of ringing ears.
in the Soviet Union."
Dutto n,
Shubert's "Death and the
The piece includes quotes
violin fists Eugene Maiden" quartet was written
from the composer's cello con-
Druck er and
when the composer was 27
certo and 1944 piano trio,
Philip Setzer
years of age, at the time he
both with Jewish themes,
and ce
learned he had syphilis, an
Drucker said.
David Finckel.
incurable disease in the early
Shostakovich had frequently
19th century.
run afoul of Soviet censors for
Drucker called the
individualism and other so-called sub-
Shubert quartet "powerful and electri-
versive elements in his music, and was
fying."
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constrained not to express his person-
"The Smetana is full of color, eth-
ality but to write for the masses.
nic, like all his works, but with a
However, he incorporated his own
touch of melancholy," Drucker said.
initials as a musical motif, using the
"It's always a debate: Is a composer
Russian "D," "S," "C" and "H,'
using a bona fide Jewish theme, or a
which translates into the notes "D,"
bona fide Czech theme, or is it some-
"E-flat," "C" and "B."
thing that-sounds like a Jewish or
"He had been forced to join the
Czech theme?" he said.
Communist Party, and was feeling a
With Shostakovich, Smetana and
lot of self-loathing," Drucker said.
the like, the sounds of their country
"He had feelings of suicide, and
and environment permeate their whole
thought of himself as another victim
compositional style, so it's almost
of fascism."
impossible to tell. ❑
Said American journalist Nicholas
Nabokov on meeting Shostakovich:
The Emerson String Quartet per-
"To me he seemed like a trapped man,
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Ice: "The value of this dream is equiv-
alent to that of a Hebrew word mean-
ing 'daybreak,' and this in itself indi-
cates a positive nature to the message
hidden with the dream's value. Indeed,
it suggests that a higher level of under-
standing is about to `dawn' on you.
However, right now you are in a state
of spiritual stagnation and need to
find some way to thaw out your
approach to the Divine so that you
may benefit from the warmth of its
presence,"
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Meat: "To dream of eating meat indi-
cates that you have a desire to create
sufficient strength of will and courage to
move forward in your spiritual quest."
Paralysis: "If we were reviewing this
dream from a psychological point of
view, we would see this as suggesting
that you need to make great efforts to
take control of your life. However,
from a spiritual perspective this dream
suggests that your feeling of paralysis
stems from a concern that as you
move forward along the spiritual path,
you are losing your sense of control
and being subsumed by a generalized
sense of the Divine."
Perfume: "You are clearly taking your
relationship to the Divine very serious-
ly. This dream makes it clear that you
should set aside a specific time each
day to try to increase your spiritual
understanding."
Dreaming happens easily enough to
all of us, but there is nothing simple
about Divining Your Dreams.
The interpretations can be oblique,
and the basic presentation of how to
interpret these dreams is quite complex.
However, if you're intrigued by
dreams, or want to consider interpre-
tation beyond Freud, you may want to
take a look at this text.
If so, get your journal and pen
handy and head off to bed for-a good
night's sleep.
Lilah toy. Good night.
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