Keeping Score-Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
by David Kennard, Joan Saffa, Gary Halvorson
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Actor: Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco SymphonyDirector: David Kennard, Gary Halvorson, Joan Saffa
Brand: PBS
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD, Import, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-11-10
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: San Francisco Sym
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DVD Review: Shostakovich Mocks Stalin
Summary: 5 Stars
In 1924 Lenin died and Joseph Stalin, named as one member of a troika to rule the Soviet Union, took sole power as leader of the country despite Lenin's earlier warnings. In the early 1930s, Stalin launched his disastrous collective farming plan, which resulted in six million deaths from starvation in the Ukraine alone. In the late 1930s, Stalin launched his Great Purge, which resulted in the imprisonment of thousands of citizens in Gulag labor camps. No sector of society was spared this punishment and many artists were targeted.
In 1936, Shostakovich fell from favor after his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District was sharply critizised by Stalin and the Communist Party apparatus. Fearing for his life, Shostakovich composed his triumphant Fifth Symphony, which brought him back into favor with Stalin and the Party.
But was the Fifth really what it seemed? Michael Tilson Thomas dissects the symphony and shows that Shostakovich, taking a cue from Mahler's Fourth Symphony, was secretly mocking the Stalin regime by changing a few notes from the expected major key to a minor key.
Thomas presents newsreel footage of the 1930s to illustrate the fear that pervaded Stalin's reign and interviews artists from that age who tell what it was like to live under Stalin's rule.
A complete performance of the Fifth Symphony follows.
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