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Scoring

1(=picc).0.0.bcl.1-1.2.1.1-timp.perc:tgl/SD/cyms/BD-pft-strings-chorus

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Publisher

VAAP

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski for the UK, British Commonwealth (excluding Canada), Republic of Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Israel.

Availability

World Premiere
09/05/1931
Leningrad Working Youth Theatre, Leningrad
Mikhail Sokolovsky & R. Suslovich, director / Leningrad Working Youth Theatre (TRAM) / N. Dvorikov
Repertoire Note

1.The Internationale  2.Infantry March  3.Along the Soviet Route  4.Protest  5.Raising the Banner  6.The Banners are Making a Noise


Shostakovich’s third and final score for TRAM (the Theatre of Working Youth) was composed for a play written by the theatre’s brilliant and controversial director, Adrian Piotrovsky. The subject matter was apparently the condition of the working-classes and the prospect for revolution in western capitalist countries.
 
The surviving music is lively, cheerful and vigorous, somewhat in the style of the colourful political posters of the period. It is scored for a small orchestra and includes a simple chorus in the first and last movements, singing two well-known revolutionary songs, including the ‘Internationale’. It also includes an ‘Infantry March’ which Shostakovich liked well enough to recycle in an elaborated form in op.31, and then again further elaborated in op.32


Note by Gerard McBurney

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