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In honour of what would have been Shostakovich’s 117th birthday, I have coloured this previously black and white picture of Shostakovich.
Good Omens || Secret Record, Season 3 Clue || Fan Theory
OF COURSE!! HOW COULD WE BE SO BLIND! :DDDD
This is my Superwholock
This is my Spotify wrapped, I don’t really listen to music much though.
about shostakovich, this one is my favourite picture of his
Love that one! It was taken in 1943 at Ivanovo, where he briefly stayed at the Composers’ House during the war. There are a lot of neat photographs from this time, many of them taken by his wife Nina. You can find a lot of them in Mikhail Ardov’s “Memories of Shostakovich.”
Here are some more interesting Ivanovo photos:
These two, from the same collection, with his son Maxim and his daughter Galina:
hanging out with Gliere and Khachaturian:
Chickens!
With Maxim in the dacha, and working on the Eighth Symphony:
With Maxim and a horse:
I made around 5 card cutouts of this picture of Shostakovich I found on Pinterest in August and turned one of them into a mask and hid the other 4 at my school.
I may have a problem.
Practically a face reveal. Here is very amazing outfit that nobody be be able to ‘Handel’ (I’m going to watch Handel’s Messiah tonight)
I edited these photos to erase my detritus-encrusted living quarters in a few minutes. [It’s hard to believe I have a 9(A*) in GCSE Photography with these 😃]
This blog’s art will always make me happy!
I think he's a Disney princess
He's so cute with these harmless creatures
okay not enough of you classical music people know about the dsch journal and that is a CRIME
so, the dsch journal is a volunteer-run journal dedicated entirely to the life and works of dmitri shostakovich. it’s been running since the 90s and publishes two journals per year, which are filled with historical interviews and letters, musical reviews and analyses, opinion pieces from fans and listeners, and updates from the world of shostakovich research on new projects and discoveries to help us better understand one of the most enigmatic- and yet, one of the most famous- composers of the 20th century. their website contains some sample articles from over the years, which often have exclusive information that can be hard to find in biographies and other publications, like interviews from shostakovich’s close friends and family. anyone from anywhere in the world can apply to submit their work to the journal, which is how I got my start with them. they also have an instagram and facebook, where they post lots of neat shostakovich photos, so you should check those out!
I’m now a volunteer writer, editor, and researcher with the dsch journal, and the opportunity has just been amazing. in the upcoming issue, I have three articles- two obituaries and a news piece on a ten-volume (!!) chronicle being released over the course of this decade documenting shostakovich’s life in intense detail, which I was SO excited to read about. I’ve also had a chance to proofread some interviews from his visit to america in 1973, which contain some fascinating information on his artistic process.
also I just gotta point out the covers of the print journals, because they are GORGEOUS. here are some of my favorites-
just !! look at them!!
I am so very tempted to make my yearbook quote “He fell like a chicken into the soup”.
I submitted it as my yearbook quote…
I also wrote it in Textura Quadrata.
I am so very tempted to make my yearbook quote “He fell like a chicken into the soup”.
I bought this Shostakovich stamp over a month ago and it just came in the mail!
I very much enjoyed being a part of this project, and it has been my privilege to create art alongside such wonderful artists and writers. Well done everyone!
My contribution to this zine was this painting of Dmitri, Maxim and Dmitri (Jr) Shostakovich based on Piano Concerto No.2, a piece gifted by Dmitri to Maxim, and Maxim played it with Dmitri Jr. A lot of things went wrong along the way but I am quite happy with how it turned out.
Finally, after a month or so of hard work, we present to you...
CADENZA ZINE!
You can enjoy this Zine in two ways (original):
- Web
For our classical music fans who aren't comfortable with shipping content, we have a version where the ship content is completely removed:
- web
We want to thank all our amazing artists and writers who participated in the making of this Zine and our wonderful readers who continuously supported us.
Thus, this project has come to a smashing conclusion. Thank you for being a part of our journey!
Today I learned that there is a minor planet named after Shostakovich
This is a representation of what they think of looks like ^^
And here is a map of it’s orbit around the sun.^^
Do with this information what you will.
Im driving to Oxford right now on a school trip. I drew this picture of Shostakovich
And I fixed it (aka took random suggestions from the people around me) and created Shostakovich on a train.
Rebloging because this is my favourite piece by Shostakovich
ops on Shostakovich?
Sorry for the late reply! I deeply admire his work and his story!
I’ve been meaning to post this forever
The speedpaint and process of my “Piano Concerto No.2” painting for the Cadenza Zine::
Materials used ::
- Procreate (for the digital version)
- Daler Rowney cold pressed watercolour paper
- Zebra Fude Brush pen (for the lineart)
- Windsor and Newton Cotman watercolour pans
- Photoshop (For digital colour correction)
Listening to Shostakovich is very fun because you'll get to the Silly Part, and then you read any biography of Shostakovich and you learn that the Silly Part was written during the single shittiest moment of his life up to that point and had like five different top-ranking government officials ready to assassinate him at any given moment