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In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht bounded Leningrad in that which was to become one of the longest & most harmful sieges in Traditional western background - almost 3 years of bombardment and hunger that culminated in the tough winter of 1943-1944. More than a million people perished. Survivors remember corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned up catalogs, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family house animals and - eventually - each other to remain alive. Trapped between your Nazi invading push and the Soviet administration itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow people - the Leningrad Symphony, which emerged to take up a surprising host to prominence in the eventual Allied triumph. This is actually the true story of any city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance when confronted with terrifying odds. Additionally it is a look at the energy - and layered meaning - of music in beleaguered lives. Symphony for the City of the Dead is a masterwork thrillingly advised and impeccably investigated by National Reserve Award-winning writer M. T. Anderson.
