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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Moynahan, Brian, 1941- author.     Subjects     Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphonies, no. 7, op. 60.     Symphonies -- Soviet Union -- History.     Music and war -- Soviet Union -- History.     Music and state -- Soviet Union.     Music -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.     Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944.     Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Moynahan, Brian, 1941- author.       by title:      Leningrad : siege an...         MARC Display

Leningrad : siege and symphony / Brian Moynahan. by Moynahan, Brian, 1941- author. New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2013. Subjects Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphonies, no. 7, op. 60.   Symphonies -- Soviet Union -- History.   Music and war -- Soviet Union -- History.   Music and state -- Soviet Union.   Music -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.   Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944.   Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. ISBN:  0802123163 9780802123169 (hbk.) : Description:  xii, 542 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Contents:  Ouvertyura = Overture -- Repressii = Terror -- Voyna = War -- Do serediny sentyabr' = To mid-September 1941 -- Do serediny oktyabr' = To mid-October 1941 -- Oktyabr' = October 1941 -- Noyabr' = November 1941 -- Dekabr' = December 1941 -- Noviy god = New Year -- Yanvar' = January 1942 -- Fevral' = February 1942 -- Mart = March 1942 -- Aprel'-Maj = April-May 1942 -- Iyun' = June 1942 -- Iyul' = July 1942 -- Simfonya Nr. 7 = Symphony no. 7 -- Do svidaniya = Farewell. Requests:  0 Summary:  Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died of their wounds, the cold, and most of all, starvation. The assembled musicians--scrounged from frontline units and military bands, for only twenty of the orchestra's 100 players had survived--were so hungry, many feared they'd be too weak to play the score right through. In these, the darkest days of the Second World War, the music and the defiance it inspired provided a rare beacon of light for the watching world. In Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. In vivid and compelling detail he tells the story of the cruelties heaped by the twin monsters of the twentieth century on a city of exquisite beauty and fine minds, and of its no less remarkable survival. Weaving Shostakovich's own story and that of many others into the context of the maelstrom of Stalin's purges and the brutal Nazi invasion of Russia, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony is a magisterial and moving account of one of the most tragic periods in history.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 940.54217 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54217 Moynahan Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54217 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54217 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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