Great ideas for a concert #498C

[woolymonkey]

Play the first movement so that flies drop dead in mid-air and the audience leaves the hall out of sheer boredom.
---Shostakovich's instructions for his fifteenth string quartet., probably not that hard to follow, and one of many reasons the piece is never set for Associated Board Grade exams.

Yes folks, it's week 18 again on AA100.  I'm marking essays.

EITHER Irish Nationalism and the Invention of Tradition (about which I know exactly as much as is covered in the course materials)
OR Musical Tradition in the String Quartets of Shostakovich (about which I know even less)

Candidates should not attempt to answer both questions or write on more than one side of the paper at a time.

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Good luck!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you! One more punctual Shostakovich to go, then I get to mark Creative Writing from the other course until I come back to mop up the Irelands and Shosts that came in after the deadline (meaning I can take as long as I want over them).