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Alsop Conducts Shostakovich

Name: Alsop Conducts Shostakovich
Start: 2025-07-07T18:00:00
Location: Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Philadelphia Orchestra

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Written in 1937, in the midst of Stalin’s cruel artistic purges, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 shows little of the terrible strain the composer and his compatriots felt. The government defined truth and beauty, and the consequences of coloring outside those lines were dire. Seemingly on a whim, an artist’s work could be condemned, and the artist himself banished. Despite the overriding climate of fear, his Fifth was a triumph; the Leningrad premi...

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven - LenoreOverture No. 3

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

Zhao Jiping - Pipa Concerto No. 2

Participants

Wu Man

Percussion

Marin Alsop

Conductor

Philadelphia Orchestra

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