Talk:October (Shostakovich)

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A fact from October (Shostakovich) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 May 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that one music critic said that despite being "noisy, banal, fundamentally insincere", Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonic poem October was nonetheless "enjoyable trash"?

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 19:39, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that one music critic said that despite being "noisy, banal, fundamentally insincere", Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonic poem October was nonetheless "enjoyable trash"? Source: "It doesn't sound promising, and surely "October" seems a parody of Shostakovich's "public" image—noisy, banal, fundamentally insincere—but it takes such a great composer to write such enjoyable trash." [1]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bolton Smith
- Comment: ~~QPQ coming soon...~~ Done!

Created by CurryTime7-24 (talk). Self-nominated at 04:17, 10 May 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Brilliant article, entertaining prose and hook, and expertly cited. Length and date are acceptable. No Swan So Fine (talk) 14:58, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sfn

@CurryTime7-24: Ref "Shostakovich, pp. 275–276." points to no source. Please check. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 19:40, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It should be fixed now! :) —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 00:29, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Move

Any reason why this isn't at October (poem)? This currently links to Frost, but the actual poem isn't even mentioned in the bio. As this poem has an article, would it be fair to say it is more notable than Frost's? (With a potential hatnote?) Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:34, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Or, potentially October (symphonic poem). Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:35, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

October (poem) would be potentially misleading as Shostakovich’s October isn’t really a "poem" according to the general understanding of that term. However, I’ll make a redirect at October (symphonic poem) right now. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 00:32, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]