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Shostakovich's Gregorian Chant
Shostakovich has a reputation for violent music, but that is at least somewhat due to bad performances of his work. The text now reads, I feel that I am a little boy in Bialystok. Blood is spattered over the floor. Shostakovich creates a savagely sardonic march while telling the woodwinds to play very low and extremely loudly.