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An NCPA Presentation

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

In this series of talks on Western classical music, Dr. Cavas Bilimoria takes listeners through musical concepts, the lives of composers and their famous works, interspersed with examples from recorded music. The first talk this month will dive into Soviet-Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. One cannot fully understand and appreciate the composition without historical context. Artistes and musicians were under severe scrutiny under Stalin’s Soviet Union. Shostakovich, thus, had to adopt a style of composing where he could communicate the despair and condemnation towards the regime under the guise of a politically acceptable way of writing music. The talk will further unpack the symphony.

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