HOUSE RULE (Beethoven/Mozart/Shostakovich)

The Mobile Symphony Orchestra writes:

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 Just Criticism.”, the piece is undeniably laced w ...