In Episode 18 of Beyond The Music Score, we delve into the thunderous depths of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, “The Year 1905” — a work that echoes with revolution, repression, and the alarm bells of history. But this time, the echoes aren’t just from Russia’s past… they ring dangerously close to America’s possible future.

Join us as we explore each movement of this haunting symphony, drawing parallels between the Tsar’s iron grip and modern threats to democracy. What happens when silence becomes survival? What if the bell — the tocsin — tolls for us? And what if we are too late to answer?

A chilling, poetic reflection on music as memory, prophecy, and resistance.

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