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Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 1)What was Dmitri Shostakovich trying to portray in his music? There is probably no more debated question in 20th-century Western classical music than this. On the surface, it seems to have a simple answer…

Daishin Kashimoto, a Japanese violinist who leads one of the world's finest orchestras: "I want to deliver sounds that touch the soul to the world." 1)The Berlin Philharmonic is the world's leading orchestra, bringing together the finest m…

No. 1080 "How to get your ideal country" 2023/12/22 //Summary - Level-C2// The text discusses achieving an ideal country through personal and collective efforts. Emphasising the dream-like nature of existence, it advocates purifying one's …

Go against intuition, surprise people and arouse their desire for the unknown.The French Newspaper exclaims, "No one can match Tadashi Tokieda in his ability to spread mathematics to the world". 1)Tadashi Tokieda, a mathematician and profe…