When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the one who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth in the face of the dictator. Vsevolod Meyerhold came as close as anyone to achieving this. It is important to know of the full horror of his sacrifice. It is easy for all to imagine we are heroes when we are sitting in our kitchens, dreaming of distant suffering.- Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad. M.T. Anderson
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  1. We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security
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  4. I run through the woods, at once applauding myself for my wit-"" Well deserved, sir. Well deserved."" And at the self instant, I am grinding my teeth because I am a vain, revenging idiot and shall be run down because of it.
  5. It meant different things to different people, but somehow it meant them all intensely. Shostakovich's words just confuse the issue. His symphony itself is what remains. Listen to it. It is your symphony to write with him.
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