• Symphony for a starving city

  • May 7 2019
  • Length: 33 mins
  • Podcast

Symphony for a starving city

  • Summary

  • Making music under Stalin was a dangerous undertaking — it could end with applause or in a prison camp. In the brutal grip of World War II, Shostakovich composed a symphony so powerful, it was smuggled halfway around the world in order to be played.

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