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Taking apart Shostakovich, his life, his music and the relationship he had with colleagues and the world around him. This symposium gives us a broader understanding of this complicated and brilliant man illuminated by some of the world’s leading experts on his life and music.

Sunday, Feb. 5, MacLaurin A-168

9:30 AM – Patrick McCreless (Yale University) – “Musical Topics, Musical Gestures:  Means to Ends in Shostakovich’s String Quartets”

10:30 – Michelle Assay (Université Paris-Sorbonne) and David Fanning (University of Manchester) – “Shostakovich and Weinberg: a Musical Dialogue”

11:30 Judith Kuhn (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) – “The Composer as ‘Spin Doctor:’ How Shostakovich Shaped the Reception of His Quartets”