SHOSTAKOVICH - A LIFE

Duration: 1 hour.
Recommended from grade 6.

Teaching materials are available free of charge on moodle 6 weeks before the concert.

Dmitri Shostakovich
"Festive Overture" in A major op. 96
Polka (Allegretto) from the ballet "The Golden Age" op. 22
"Arrival of the Police" from the opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" op. 29
Waltz No. 2 from the Suite No. 2 for jazz orchestra (arrangement by Michail Jurowski)
"Tahiti Trott" op. 16
Movements from Symphonies Nos. 1, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10

Excerpts from the documentary film
Close-up Shostakovich
A film by Oliver Becker and Katharina Bruner (LOFTmusic 2006)

In addition, a lecture with music about Shostakovich will take place on Thursday, November 6 in cooperation with the Protestant Education Center Hospitalhof Stuttgart and on Monday, November 10 in cooperation with the c-punkt Münsterforum in Freiburg as part of the adult education program. Members of the SWR Symphony Orchestra will play Dmitri Shostakovich's eighth string quartet.