Re: CHAT: A flat minor (was: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING))

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:10:28AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> H. S. Teoh scripsit:
>
> > Now I know Prokofiev is [proko"fi&v] but what is the correct pronunciation
> > of Shostakovich? I've always pronounced it ["SAstakovitS] but I'm known to
> > be quite wrong sometimes. :-)
>
> All my sources agree on stressing "Prokofiev" on the second syllable and
> making the ending [fjEf] or [fj@f].  "Shostakovich", OTOH,
> gets stressed on the third syllable.  I have no idea if this matches
> Russian stress at all.
[snip]

I see.

And while we're on the subject of pronunciations... what are the correct
pronunciations of "Sibelius" and "Dvorak"? I pronounce "Sibelius" as
[saj"bi:lj@s] but a friend says [si"b&lj@s].

Also, my acquaintances seem to have rather divergent opinions about how
the 'r' in "Dvorak" is pronounced. I pronounce it as [Z] but I suspect I'm
probably very wrong. :-)


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