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A fact from King Lear (Shostakovich film score) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 January 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that fewer than half of the seventy cues composed by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1971 film King Lear made it into the final cut?

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 14:54, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Dmitri Shostakovich's 1971 score to the film King Lear is the last he completed? Source: Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film by John Riley, p. 105
- ALT1: ... that one of the cues in Dmitri Shostakovich's 1971 score to film King Lear was said to have "expressed pity like a force"? Source: King Lear: The Space of Tragedy by Grigori Kozintsev, p. 254
- ALT2: ... that of the seventy cues Dmitri Shostakovich composed for the 1971 film King Lear, less than half made it into the final cut? Source: Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film by John Riley, p. 104
- ALT3: ... that despite agreeing to score the 1971 film King Lear, Dmitri Shostakovich twice asked to be replaced with another composer? Source: Dmitri Shostakovich: New Collected Works. XIVth Series: Film Music. 142nd Volume: Sofya Perovskaya (Music to the Film, Op. 132), King Lear (Music to the Film, Op. 137), p. 185
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tadeusz Gebethner
- Comment: ~~QPQ coming soon. More hooks too. Article will be expanded a bit tomorrow.~~ Apologies for the delay!

Created by CurryTime7-24 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:02, 18 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/King Lear (Shostakovich film score); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

@CurryTime7-24: Please provide a QPQ as soon as possible, or this nomination might be closed as unsuccessful. Z1720 (talk) 03:44, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Detailed interesting facts, on excellent sources, offline and foreign sources accepted AGF. Of the hooks, I like ALT1 best so far. How about naming the cue Lamentation? ... which would cue the reader a bit. Waiting for qpq. -- (sorry, never signed this)

thank you for the qpq --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]