... time. Pad and valves were green, some simply wouldn't play at all. But in the end, they performed the 7th Symphony. Despite the difficult times, many people attended and were elated by the symphony. It was a symphony people really lived. It was Leningrad's symphony. The fact that outside the music hall bombs and shells were exploding proved that the spirit prevails over matter and that music was everything ... it is. It's an enormous canvas of the cataclysm of the 20th century. When the war was over, Shostakovich's feeling of joy for victory was mixed with bitterness. With victory Stalin...

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