For Shostakovich, Kentridge designs a furious museum of shattered dreams – music

2023-12-03 21:35:30

It is no coincidence that the author’s musical monogram appears so often in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony. When the note sequence D-Eb-CH builds up to a powerful unison in the finale before the symphony closes jubilantly, there is a message between the staves. In 1953, shortly following Stalin’s death, it read: Look, I’m still here! Shostakovich, first praised as a state artist for his music, then branded as an enemy of the people, survived the dictator’s great terror – unlike thousands upon thousands of his compatriots.

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