During this week past humanities symposium, I attended Dr Klefstand’s lecture on the works the Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. The goal of the lecture was to illustrate how Shostakovich used his music to depict the real tragedies happening in Russia under the Communist Party. The Communist Party kept a very careful eye on the Russian arts, everything had to promote a strong, unified Russia. Unfortunately the lecture didn’t go much into how Schostakovich’s music helped free the voice of the Russian people, mainly focusing on Schostakovich’s life instead. We did listen to some of Shostakovich’s work, which was full of openness leaving a great deal of room for interpretation that many believe was purposely build into the pieces by Schostakovich in order to get his message out.
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