Re: CHAT: A flat minor (was: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING))
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 12:41 |
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:54:49PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
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> Additions to the Index of Musical Mispronounciations: I once heard an
> announcer refer to those well-known Russians, [SOs't&kovitS] and
> ['prokofajf]. (And I've always been partial to that Frenchman, Jackie Bear.)
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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. :-) (And it doesn't help that where I come from,
many people pronounce Beethoven as [bi:t"huv@n] *shudder*)
T
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