There's a lot of music by russian composers that protests inhumanity. The most raw and explicit a form of protest i can think of is shastakovitch's thirteenth symphony. And even though the subject matter is grim, its uccly saying that thereiseis always this one place of beauty in the world, which is this heart form.
Vladimir Putin says the West is trying to erase 1,000 years of culture. Arts organizations say they have an obligation to respond to the war in Ukraine.
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