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Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Goldenberg and Schmoyl Movement

In the original version, Morsorksky put the Samuel in Samuel Goldenberg in quotation marks. The culmination of the movement is the Goldenberg and the schmoyl music fused together. Some performers have seen it fit to remove this movement from the suite. One solution that I think is quite elegant is to feature the music of a Jewish composer elsewhere on the program.

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