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Alsop Conducts Shostakovich
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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...
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1 dates (7 Jul - 7 Jul)
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7
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6:00 pm
Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater
Vail, CO, United States
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