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

 --- "H. S. Teoh" wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:54:49PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
> > 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.)
Oh yes! I have also heard [pEnd@'rEki] for Penderecki, [lyto'slAvski] for
Lutos£awski, and [li'xeti] for Ligeti. And of course (not often, fortunately)
['mozArt]...
I've always wondered why Dutch presentators, before they have to announce
something for an audience of a few million people, never take the effort to
find out about the pronunciation of a name when they don't know it.
The BBC is better in this respect; I was told that they even have a special
department for it.

> 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*)
Correct would be [prA'kOf_jEf] and [S@stA'kOvit_S]. Well, more or less, because
I could be inaccurate about the way /o/ is pronounced in different positions of
a word. BTW there is nothing wrong with pronouncing it always like [O] anyway,
even if this makes it sound less Russian, but more recognizable.

Jan

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