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 Tony Palmer's award-winning film The Story of Shostakovich, starring Ben Kingsley, is based on Shostakovich's memoirs and his life and career during Stalin's horrific tyranny.[([[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096250/|IMDB]])] Tony Palmer's award-winning film The Story of Shostakovich, starring Ben Kingsley, is based on Shostakovich's memoirs and his life and career during Stalin's horrific tyranny.[([[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096250/|IMDB]])]
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 +===== Seventh Symphony Part 1 =====
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 +During World War II, the composer began work on his Seventh Symphony in September 1941.
 +He wrote three portions of the piece in Leningrad and concluded it in Kuibyshev (now Samara) in December. The Seventh Symphony was played at the Leningrad Philharmonic in August 1942.[([[https://499c.ru/en/7-simfoniya-shostakovicha-v-blokadnom-leningrade-istoriya-leningradskaya-simfoniya/|499c]])]
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 +===== Seventh Symphony Part 2 =====
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 +Despite the hardships of city life, the famished musicians summoned the courage to rehearse and then perform in front of an audience. The arena was completely full. And, despite the fact that the city was constantly attacked, the lights in the skyscraper remained on. The symphony was heard by the whole city of Leningrad, as well as the entire world: the score was distributed on microfilm to Britain and the United States.[([[https://499c.ru/en/7-simfoniya-shostakovicha-v-blokadnom-leningrade-istoriya-leningradskaya-simfoniya/|499c]])]
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 +===== Other Compositions =====
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 +Shostakovich wrote the operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki, cinema music, symphonic poems, and song cycles based on poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Alexander Blok, Michelangelo, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Federico Garcia Lorca.[([[https://www.sikorski.de/media/files/1/12/1014/1085/8958/schostakowitsch_werkverzeichnis.pdf|sikorski]])]
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 +===== The Motherland Hears – The Motherland Knows =====
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 +To Shostakovich's music, a snippet of the song "The Motherland Hears – The Motherland Knows" became a distinctive melody for All-Union Radio: Call signals from the first man-made satellite were woven into the song. Yuri Gagarin hummed this tune during the landing.[([[http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/yuri-gagarin-sings|theappendix]])]
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