FEB 2020
- Shostakovich Symphony No. 11
- Marcus Fischer
- Gris
- Emma (2020)
- The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert
Shostakovich Symphony No. 11
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Dmitri Shostakovich was alternately denounced and promoted by Stalin's Communist Party. His Symphony No. 11 is a deliberate rorschach; it might glorify the 1905 worker's revolution, or it might be a criticism of the contemporary (in 1956) party's oppression of revolutions. Either way, it climaxes at the end in awesome, bell-clanging, choir-roaring fashion. Get out the vote!