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Decomposed with Jade Simmons

Symphony for a starving city

May 7, 2019·32 min
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Making music under Stalin was a dangerous undertaking — it could end with applause or in a prison camp. In the brutal grip of World War II, Shostakovich composed a symphony so powerful, it was smuggled halfway around the world in order to be played.

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