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	Leningrad Symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That the symphony is about the destruction of Leningrad and the trials to which its people were subjected is certain, but the identity of the enemy who caused this destruction has for many years been the subject of much debate and even acrimony among academics.
		The destruction that is wrought is the destruction brought on Leningrad during the siege of 1941 by the advancing German armies.
		Whatever else the Leningrad is about, it is about war and as such, I feel a detailed analysis of the thematic symbolism and juxtaposition of the materials of the first movement, along with a concurrent discussion of possible meanings is the best way to approach a discussion of the meaning of this symphony.
	www.sonyakeogh.com /allin/dissertation/3.htm (1399 words)

	Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The symphony is dedicated to the city of Leningrad.
		The symphony received its broadcast première in Europe by Henry Wood and the London Philharmonic Orchestra on 22 June 1942 in London, and concert première at a Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
		The Leningrad première, where the symphony is dedicated to, was given on 9 August 1942 by the Leningrad Radio Orchestra (the only symphony orchestra remaining in Leningrad) under Karl Eliasberg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leningrad_Symphony (1037 words)

	The Siege of Leningrad September 8, 1941 - January 27, 1944
		For centuries the cultural heart of Russia and the second largest city in the Soviet Union, Leningrad was a prime target of the advancing German Army Group North in June 1941.
		On the shore of Lake Ladoga, Leningrad had political significance as the city named for the founder of the Russian Revolution, but it also had military significance as it prevented the Germans from sweeping around the north of Russia and attacking Moscow from behind.
		Leningrad came to symbolize the Soviet-Nazi conflict, and Americans especially identified with the Leningrad inhabitants.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/leningrad.htm (535 words)

	London Shostakovich Orchestra - November 2000 Programme Notes
		The successor to Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was expected to be the second instalment of a symphonic war trilogy, and thus the sense of bleakness that pervades the work was incomprehensible, especially when `the People' were deemed to require only uplifting and celebratory music.
		However, due to the international success of the Leningrad Symphony the cultural apparatchiks were unable to openly criticise Shostakovich, and therefore they propagated the notion that the Eighth Symphony was a memorial to the Soviet victims of the Battle of Stalingrad, adopting, in the Soviet Union at least, the tag `Stalingrad Symphony'.
		The symphony's tepid reception meant that it was soon dropped from the concert repertoire both at home and abroad, having to wait, as with a number of other controversial works, until the 1960s for its revival.
	www.shostakovich.com /nov2000.html (1188 words)

	'Leningrad Symphony' recalls Nazi siege of city - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		The featured work is the "Leningrad Symphony" of Dmitri Shostakovich, widely publicized as a response to the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the siege of his hometown of Leningrad.
		A scheduled performance of the "Leningrad Symphony" that would have been led by Mariss Jansons last season was sacrificed to the PSO's financial problems.
		The symphony is famous and notorious for the main section of the first movement, said to depict the Nazi invasion -- which was inspirational domestic propaganda in Allied countries.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_319868.html (471 words)

	Leningrad Symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Much of the thematic material is altered every time that it returns, and themes are subjected to increased fragmentation and alteration as the movement progresses, especially at the climax of the central section of the movement, where all themes are distorted to the point where they are almost unrecognisable.
		One of the main characteristics of the writing in the first movement of the Leningrad is the overwhelming predominance of unison and octave writing, both in the first subject area, and the march theme of the central section.
		The symphony was thought by most Western academics to bear no relevance beyond the circumstances of its genesis amid the cruelest conflict known to humankind.
	www.sonyakeogh.com /allin/dissertation/4.htm (4806 words)

	DSCH 19 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Karel Ancerl, Leningrad Symphony
		The second conspicuous tweak is the removal of the cymbal clashes in the fourth- and third-to-last bars of the finale, thus emphasising the cymbal crescendo that closes the symphony.
		Otherwise, Ancerl does not make more of the symphony than is in the score, wisely choosing not to overfeed what is already on paper, after all, the most obese of Shostakovich's children.
		The Czech musicians' scalpel-sharp precision is functional, preserving the membrane integrity of the cells comprising this movement despite the severe stresses imposed by the conductor's relentless pace.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs19ancerl.htm (885 words)

	Shostakovich's seventh symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The seventh symphony was one of Shostakovich's most famous symphonies because of the circumstances that surrounded its composition.
		The symphony's famous savagery (the march-theme in the first movement in particular, but in other places through-out the work) could just as easily be read as a depiction of the brutality of totalitarianism in general.
		The second movement of this symphony is one that particularly appeals to me. It starts out in quite a jaunty mood, with the strings playing quite a bouncy melody.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~mn200/music/shostakovich/seventh-symphony.html (382 words)

	London Shostakovich Orchestra - May 2002 Programme Notes
		Pictures of Shostakovich, the Leningrad fireman, were widely disseminated as a symbol of the heroic resistance of the people of Leningrad.
		Of all the Leningrad artists, musicians and intelligentsia Shostakovich was one of the last, and most reluctant, to be evacuated.
		Perhaps the defining movement of the entire symphony, the development section of this sonata form first movement is replaced by the notorious 'invasion theme'.
	www.shostakovich.com /may2002.html (1312 words)

	Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7
		Written during the siege of Leningrad in WWII and smuggled out of the city, the symphony was embraced by the Allies during the war and conducted to great acclaim by Toscanini.
		This is music entirely different to the overwhelmingly tense and strident fourth symphony, to the melancholy introspection of the fifth symphony (whose "triumphant" finale, even, raises more questions than it solves), to the restless unease of the sixth.
		Some of his scherzi rage (in the tenth), some of them thumb their nose ("Humor" in the thirteenth), some dance on the edge, so that you wonder the dancer is intoxicated, or even in his right mind (the fifth and eighth).
	www.livewebshop.com /B00000IP39/Shostakovich_Symphony_No__7.html (2089 words)

	Amazon.ca: Symphony No. 7 - Leningrad: Music: Shostakovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That it was written in Leningrad during the Nazi siege is partially true.
		In the 1930's and 1940's the Leningrad Philharmonic (now the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic), after the concert season was over, would have a week or so of private readings of new works or works in progress.
		The symphony was a requiem for Leningrad, Russia's cultural capitol, whose intellectual and artistic life had been destroyed by Stalin's purges.
	www.amazon.ca /Symphony-No-7-Leningrad-Shostakovich/dp/B0001FYRCG (638 words)

	Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony
		This sound clip from Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was orchestrated by The New York Philharmonic and conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
		At first listen, it seems to be a symphony that mourns the rape of Leningrad by Hitler.
		The premiere of the Seventh Symphony was broadcast via radio all over Russia and was propagandized by Stalin, who wanted his Western Allies to think the best of Soviet culture and marvel at what the USSR could produce in times of war.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/pmcginley/seventh.html (739 words)

	NewMusicBox
		My First Symphony was written as a very personal farewell to many friends I had lost to AIDS, and one friend whose diagnosis with the disease prompted the writing of the work.
		Shostakovich's late symphonies often deal with events that surrounded him (Babi Yar, the siege of Leningrad, etc.), but time changes that—and I can think of no better proof of this than the recording session I attended when I was composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
		Bernstein (a Jew) was leading the CSO in Shostakovich's "Leningrad" Symphony (about the brutal German invasion of that city during World War II) and all this was being recorded by Deutsche Grammophon—Germany's leading classical label—with loving care.
	www.newmusicbox.org /article.nmbx?id=2571 (258 words)

	Philharmonic playbill
		The concert performance of the opera scenes, preceding the opera staging is one of the repertoire features of the orchestra in the pre-war period.
		The orchestra, to which, according to Slonimsky, he "owes his symphony debuts", the composer dedicates his Twelfth symphony (2005); at the concert dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Falik, there sounds the premiere of his Third symphony (2006).
		The orchestra, which in 1952 participated in the debut of Leningrad conservatory student Andrey Petrov, fifty years later performs his pieces on the first concert dedicated to the memory of the composer.
	www.philharmonia.spb.ru /eng/zkrang.html (776 words)

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		His favorite device of a dialogue between solo instruments of the orchestra, used with particular strength in his Fifth Symphony, is thus set forth at once in his creative career, as a habit upon which he is to lean with success for thirty years.
		The scherzo of the Sixth Symphony runs to six minutes, and in the Seventh, or "Leningrad" Symphony, only seven out of the seventy-odd minutes required for performance are allotted to the scherzo.
		The texture of the opening of the First Symphony's slow movement is romantic yet economical, with the solo oboe singing a plangent theme that is the entire motive of the slow section.
	www.audionautes.com /lp_cd/45rpm/2322.htm (1016 words)

	Siege of Leningrad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russian map of the operations around Leningrad in 1943 Blue are the German and allied Finnish troops.
		map of the advance on Leningrad and relief Blue are the German and allied Finnish troops.
		The Siege of Leningrad was commemorated in late 1950s by the Green Belt of Glory, a circle of trees and memorials along the historic frontline.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad (2226 words)

	Baltimore Symphony Orchestra > About the BSO > Music & Musicians > Artist Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Temirkanov was appointed as a conductor with the Maly Opera and Ballet Theatre in Leningrad.
		In 1968, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra where he remained until his appointment as Music Director of the Kirov Opera and Ballet in 1976.
		A similar honor was accorded the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 1987 when it was the first American orchestra in eleven years to tour the Soviet Union.
	www.baltimoresymphony.org /about/musicmusicians/view.asp?id=2123 (476 words)

	RIA Novosti - Culture - ALBERT HALL PREMIERES "LENINGRAD" SYMPHONY
		Maxim Shostakovich, the classic composer's son, is conducting the symphony orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society.
		Shostakovich wrote the Seventh in besieged Leningrad, and applied final touches to the drama-laden music after he evacuated to Kuibyshev on the Volga (both cities have now regained their original names-the former St. Petersburg, and the latter Samara).
		One of the world's foremost orchestra conductors, Maxim Shostakovich, 67, was born in Leningrad and finished a secondary music school under the city Conservatory to go on to the Moscow Conservatory, piano department.
	en.rian.ru /culture/20050509/39956390.html (379 words)

	classical music - andante - 'it's in my blood' - maxim shostakovich on conducting his father's 'leningrad' symphony
		In the late summer of 1942, a group of starving Leningrad musicians gave a performance that became a legend.
		The Leningrad orchestra performed it on 9 August, the day Hitler had predicted their city would fall to his troops.
		Once word of the 'Leningrad' Symphony reached the outside world in 1942, arrangements were made to smuggle the score out of the country on microfilm.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25475 (1077 words)

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		Death of Symphony for Myaskovsky in Shaporin: Zamyatin Songs reprisals against Bulgakov's Dzerzhinsky, head of GPU.
		Symphony No. 2 in B, Op.14 ('To 1905 (poem) Babel: Odessa November 12: Trotsky and Zinoviev October').
		The latter causes a furious Symphony No. 1 Polovinkin: Propagation of religion becomes Collectivism is the watchword in scandal.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/shoschron/tns2635.html (1809 words)

	Bernstein's Studio - Young People's Concerts - A Birthday Tribute to Shostakovich
		His famous Seventh Symphony, known as the Leningrad Symphony--which was written in Leningrad in 1941 while the city was more often than not in flames from the Nazi bombings--that Seventh Symphony lasts seventy-five minutes, requires an extra brass band, and makes the walls fall down.
		Now almost every symphony has some kind of joke in it: Even the most serious symphony by Beethoven or Mahler has at least one movement (usually the scherzo) which is humorous--maybe not out-and-out comical, but satirical, or bitter, or mocking, or something.
		The humor of this movement is that it doesn't belong in a symphony at all--especially a Ninth Symphony.
	www.leonardbernstein.com /studio/element2.asp?id=399 (3001 words)

	Baltimore Symphony Orchestra > Press Room > Press Releases
		The Baltimore Symphony’s previous visit to the European continent in November 2001 was met with great success, and garnered the Orchestra considerable praise from important music critics in the major capitals of Europe.
		In 1966, Temirkanov was appointed as a conductor with the Maly Opera and Ballet Theatre in Leningrad.
		Similarly, in 1987, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was the first American orchestra in 11 years to tour the Soviet Union when it performed concerts in Moscow and Leningrad.
	www.baltimoresymphony.org /pressroom/pressreleases/view.asp?id=30000178 (1436 words)

	The 900-day Siege of Leningrad, Russia (The Leningrad Blockade)
		For everyone who lives in St. Petersburg the Blokada (the Siege) of Leningrad is an important part of the city's heritage and a painful memory for the population's older generations.
		Dmitry Shostakovich wrote his Seventh "Leningrad" Symphony and it was performed in the besieged city.
		Most of them were buried in mass graves in different cemeteries, with the majority in the Piskariovskoye Memorial Cemetery, resting place to over 500,000 people and a timeless reminder of the heroic deeds of the city.
	www.saint-petersburg.com /history/siege.asp (475 words)

	NPR's SymphonyCast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The season also includes orchestral engagements with the Atlanta, Houston and Seattle symphonies, the London Philharmonic with Eschenbach and the NHK Symphony of Japan with Charles Dutoit, as well as debut recitals at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theatre in Washington, D.C., Wigmore Hall in London and the Louvre in Paris.
		The Baltimore Symphony's first visit to East Asia in 1994 was described as the hit of Tokyo's star-filled concert season.
		In keeping with the Baltimore Symphony's mandate to serve as a cultural resource for all Maryland residents -— the Orchestra has partnered with Montgomery County residents, county and state officials, to establish a new 2000-seat concert hall in the Washington, D.C. suburb of North Bethesda.
	www.npr.org /programs/symphonycast/archives/020113.extra.html (2308 words)

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		April: falls ill. Ali-Zade: Symphony No. 2 Ivanovs: Soviet injustice and deplore penal code revised to facilitate Convalesces in sanatorium in Poem of Struggle (for strings) the trend towards action against dissidents.
		Peiko: Symphony No. 5 Coexistence, and Intellectual August 25: dissident protests in June 14: Twelfth Quartet Freedom (in samizdat) Autumn: Red Square against Soviet premiered in Moscow.
		Symphony premiered in Leningrad June: Crimean Tatars demonstrate (soloists: Vishnevskaya, Mark in Moscow.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/shoschron/tns6675.html (1390 words)

	DSCH 21 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Leningrad Symphony
		Though the days when the Leningrad Symphony was struggling to live down its massive wartime popularity are over, it is still a work that presents considerable problems for a conductor.
		Attending a live performance can be a shattering experience in the hands of a conductor who really has the work within his or her grasp, but otherwise it can feel like an awfully long seventy minutes.
		Oleg Caetani is currently in the process of recording all of Shostakovich's symphonies with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, founded in 1993.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs21op60.htm (787 words)

	Ballet-Dance Magazine - Kirov Ballet -The Overcoat, Young Girl and Hooligan, Leningrad Symphony - Mariinsky Theatre, ...
		The final ballet of the afternoon, “Leningrad Symphony”, was performed as it usually is, just after May 9, in honor of Victory Day.
		Thus, this year once more ode was paid to the millions of Russians who died during World War II, and the great toll it took on the country’s continually declining population.
		The mixture of costumes, music and choreography in “Leningrad Symphony” makes a bone-chilling impression of the horrors of war, which are depicted mostly symbolically in Igor Belsky’s effective 1961 creation.
	www.ballet-dance.com /200608/articles/Kirov20060513.html (1153 words)

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