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HOUSE RULE (Beethoven/Mozart/Shostakovich)

Mobile Symphony Orchestra

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The composition of <strong>Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony</strong> took place during the height of Soviet Union oppression in his homeland of Russia. Though he was a composer and not soldier, Shostakovich’s career was exploited to produce propaganda. He had a successful opera condemned as unpatriotic and was forced to withdraw the premier of his 4th symphony for fear of punishment. Though the 5th Symphony is subtitled “A Soviet Artist’s Response to...

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven - Leonore Overture No. 3

Composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23

Composer

Participants

Scott Speck

Conductor

Menahem Pressler

Piano