CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Shostakovich Babi Yar

14/09/2018 22 min
CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Shostakovich Babi Yar

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"If one function of art is to make us ponder difficult questions, there could not be a more potent example than Shostakovich's 13th" (The Guardian). Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti opens a season of reflection with Shostakovich's gripping setting of poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko condemning anti-Semitism and the barbarous acts that took place near Kiev in September 1941.