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Orchestral/Choral Works about Lenin and October revolution

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« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2017, 11:18:30 am »

Estonian composer, Veljo Tormis, born 1930 and deceased last month, composed a cantata: Lenin's Words [Lenini sõnad] in 1972, at the occasion of the 50th birthday of the establishment of the USSR, in three movements:
1. What is Soviet Power?
2. The Complete Equality of Peoples
3. The Tomorrow of World History
for soprano, female choir, male choir and mixed choir, on texts by Lenin.

When I first met him, in August 1993, he told me that he had chosen words from Lenin's famous 'Testament' that were not acceptable to the Soviet authorities at the time - especially as they acknowledged minority rights. :D

I see the story is confirmed by Mimi S. Daitz in her monography on Tormis: https://books.google.nl/books?id=LLSptm0fA6wC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=Tormis+Words+Lenin%27s&source=bl&ots=j47nfrYM4d&sig=Ltcw0PKtsMaGps1psvaA4XHCZxc&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyjsKYnb_SAhWBfxoKHT04BGIQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=Tormis%20Words%20Lenin's&f=false
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… music is not only an `entertainment’, nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.  RVW, 1948

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