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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:
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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 cuesDmitri 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
@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)