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Posted At : December 18, 2008 03:57 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-75) was classical music's equivalent of a "five-tool" baseball player. He composed 15 greatly admired string quartets, two concerti each for piano, violin and cello, 15 symphonies (my personal favorites are the 8th, 11th and 15th), two of the 20th century's more important operas -- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and The Nose, after Gogol -- and a staggering number of film scores and incidental music.
He's also, posthumously, lent his name to a line of cruise ships. One of them, the Mikhail Suslov was doubling as a "cruise to nowhere" gambling vessel under the innocuous handle of Ocean Jewel, out of St. Petersburg ... Florida, that is. Faites vos jeux, Comrade!
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Mikhail Suslov ...
Actually, if this were an operatic plot, while it has elements of the absurdism Shostakovich enjoyed, it's more like a remake of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. Having ceased operations in St. Pete in 2005, the Mikhail Sus ... er, Ocean Jewel plied its trade out of Tampa for a year. Now, flagged as the Omega Royale (an irony czarists are certain to appreciate), it's hoping to find a berth in Brevard.
... aka Ocean Jewel/Omega Royale/[your name here]
Gambling aboard an itinerant ship named for a Soviet icon?* If this isn't a metaphor for the collapse of Communism, then I don't know what is.
* -- Keeping with the musical motif, there's also a Shostakovich-class ship named after the noted bass Georg Ots.
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