NP Vollmann's / Heinrich Boell / OBAFGKMRNS

[bekah]

At 6:29 AM +0000 7/5/06, mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:
>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Otto [mailto:ottosell at yahoo.de]
>
>>
>>  Up to now, it is quite informative, I liked the pieces on Kaethe
>>  Kollwitz ("Woman with Dead Child"), the various chapters on Shostakovich
>>  & his women and the one on Roman Karmen ("Far and Wide My Country
>>  Stretches") very much.
>>
>
>Yes, the Kathe Kollwitz chapter was great!  I felt inferior reading 
>the Shostakovich bits because I didn't know the pieces he was 
>talking about.  Perhaps if I listen to them I can finish the novel...


I'm not familiar with Shostakovich either but I knew that I was 
reading a symphony in Leningrad and out with the tanks.

Bekah