Music: Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad” in C Major, Op. 60, I. Allegretto [excerpt] (1940)

 

If you want to hear the entire symphony, it is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbru9UcCLQQ

Music criticism (2):

  • Manifesto by the Russian Association of Proletariat Musicians (1929): Weiss 419-421
  • Virgil Thompson, “Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh,” New York Herald Tribune, 18 October 1942: Weiss 424-426