Music in Our Schools Month: Symphony for the City of the Dead
Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
In 1941, composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote a symphony in response to the relentless Siege of Leningrad. M.T. Anderson explores both the siege and Shostakovich's work in this award-winning nonfiction account.
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