Identify Your Avatar

[Florestan]

My avatar and my signature line --- my top 3 composers. 

[Mirror Image]

My avatar and my signature line --- my top 3 composers. 

[Mirror Image]

After deciding on Shostakovich again as my avatar, I decided upon this photo of his younger, more eager self (and quite happier I'm sure):

[Florestan]

After deciding on Shostakovich again as my avatar, I decided upon this photo of his younger, more eager self (and quite happier I'm sure):

A dashing young man. 

[Mirror Image]

A dashing young man. 

Little did he know that many of his close friends were heading to the Gulag. If we were able to completely undo history, there's no telling where Shostakovich would've gone stylistically.

[Mirror Image]

I decided to go with a younger photograph of Shostakovich as perhaps it represents a time in his life that he wished he could have relived, especially knowing what he knew in the 30s and 40s.

[Florestan]

I decided to go with a younger photograph of Shostakovich as perhaps it represents a time in his life that he wished he could have relived, especially knowing what he knew in the 30s and 40s.

Lovely photo.

[Mirror Image]

Lovely photo.

Indeed, Andrei as is your own.

[vandermolen]

Nikolai (Miaskovsky/Myaskovsky) has had a makeover thanks to John (MI) who discovered a nice new photo of him

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Nikolai (Miaskovsky/Myaskovsky) has had a makeover thanks to John (MI) who discovered a nice new photo of him

Yes! Nice to see a change in your avatar, Jeffrey. Glad you liked the photo. What's even cooler is both of us have two of the greatest Soviet Russian composers as our avatar.

[vandermolen]

Yes! Nice to see a change in your avatar, Jeffrey. Glad you liked the photo. What's even cooler is both of us have two of the greatest Soviet Russian composers as our avatar.

Very much agree John!

[Mirror Image]

Very much agree John!

[JBS]

Shall we have a troika?
Though  my guy qualifies only as a Soviet composer, not a Russian one.

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Shall we have a troika?
Though  my guy qualifies only as a Soviet composer, not a Russian one.

Khachaturian!

[JBS]

Khachaturian!

այո, նա է

[Florestan]

I reverted to Rachmaninoff and I also quote him in my signature line --- both items summing up my own musical, aesthetic and political stance, and proclaiming urbi et orbi that I am a brazen, unabashed and unrepentant romantic. 

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I reverted to Rachmaninoff and I also quote him in my signature line --- both items summing up my own musical, aesthetic and political stance, and proclaiming urbi et orbi that I am a brazen, unabashed and unrepentant romantic. 

Yeah and I went back to Shostakovich.

[JBS]

And I'm back to Raoul Duty.

[Florestan]

I decided to switch to a neutral avatar.

Anemones by Ștefan Luchian (1910)

[George]

I decided to switch to a neutral avatar.

Anemones by Ștefan Luchian (1910)

My girlfriend approves. (Her favorite flowers.)

And I approve, as any flower wins over Rachmaninov's mug. (Though I do adore his music.)