Great Masters. Shostakovich, his Life and Music

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Call Number: DVD 780.92 Sh Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Disc 1: Lecture 1. Let the controversy begin ; Lecture 2. The kid's got talent! ; Lecture 3. Lady Macbeth ; Lecture 4. Resurrection -- Disc 2: Lecture 5. The great patriotic war ; Lecture 6. Repression and depression ; Lecture 7. The thaw -- Lecture 8. Illness and inspiration.
Lecturer: Robert Greenberg, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Examines the life and works of Dimitri Shostakovich.
DVD, region 1.

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A History of the Soviet Union through Shostakovich's music submitted by amy on July 25, 2019, 11:08am Robert Greenberg's analysis of Shostakovich's life and music is everything you'd expect from this entertaining and brilliant lecturer. Here he pulls no punches when excoriating Stalin and the devastating impact of Soviet Russia on Shostakovich's personal life and creativity.