A review by ian_
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Incredibly gripping, moving, inspiring.
"Ksenia Matus mused to Vulliamy, "So many years have passed since that day and memory is a funny thing, like drying paint. It changes color as it dries. But that symphony has stayed with me the way it was that night. Afterwards, it was still a city under siege, but I knew it would live. Music is life, after all. What is life without music? This was the music that proved our city had come back to life after death.""
Pg 349
"Ksenia Matus mused to Vulliamy, "So many years have passed since that day and memory is a funny thing, like drying paint. It changes color as it dries. But that symphony has stayed with me the way it was that night. Afterwards, it was still a city under siege, but I knew it would live. Music is life, after all. What is life without music? This was the music that proved our city had come back to life after death.""
Pg 349
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Torture, Cannibalism, War, Violence, Murder, Suicide, and Genocide