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Shostakovich Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Opus 110
In the summer of 1960 Shostakovich went to Dresden, where he was to write a score for the film Five Days, Five Nights, a joint East German and Soviet production. The devastation of Dresden by Allied bombing in 1945—the event that drove Kurt Vonnegut to write Slaughterhouse Five—was still evident in 1960, and it stunned…
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This Saturday — “Their Finest Hour”
This Saturday marks the second San Francisco Performances Saturday Series concert in the The String Quartet at a Time of War: Benjamin Britten and His Contemporaries series, and is marked “Their Finest Hour.” Saturday December 14, 2013 10:00 am Benjamin Britten and His Contemporaries San Francisco Performances Inc. St. John’s Presbyterian Church Berkeley, California Tel:…
