Shostakovich is said to have written his 10th Symphony in
the late 1940s, but because it is not a "happy" symphony
as the Party demanded, he withheld it from publication and
performance until months after Stalin's death.

  Even then there was a controversy over its seemingly
pessimistic nature, but the music's content won over the
doubters and it was called an "optomistic tragedy". Shostakovich
himself is said to have called the 2nd movement a portrait of
Stalin.  Note the use of Shostakovich's motto, D Eb C B
in the timpani near the end (this corresponds to his initials,
D. Sch. in German and the fact that, in German musical notation,
Eb=S and B=H).

  Just a note: in the 1st movement in bars 409-410 the Tremolo
Strings and (Arco) Violins have program changes as the
violins switch back and forth between tremolo and arco.
Note that in the Tremolo Strings program 19 on the Proteus 2
is an ordinary tremolo but program 20 is a tremolo with
crescendo.

                     --Gary Goldberg

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