Shostakovich Symphony No. 7, "Leningrad"
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The Hunger of Robinson Crusoe
There is no worse feeling than when all your thoughts are on food. Most of the audience wept openly during the performance, and at the end apparently there was a roar of applause from this exhausted, broken, but not defeated people. May those who come after us and happen to read these lines have mercy upon us.
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