Quote of the week (tie)

The Warrior Monk, dismissing a theme from the first movement of Symphony No. 9 by Dmitri Shostakovich:

Of course, as the Monk is keenly aware, given the Soviet requirement that composers be guided by the principles of Socialist Realism, it could hardly sound like anything else.

(Update, 3 pm: The Monk would like you, or at least me, to know that it was not his intention to sound dismissive.)