TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,M.T.
AU  - Minot,Karen
TI  - Symphony for the city of the dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad 
SN  - 9780763691004
U1  - 780.92 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Somerville, Mass.
PB  - Candlewick Press
KW  - Shostakovich, Dmitri�i Dmitrievich,
KW  - Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944)
KW  - fast
KW  - World War (1939-1945)
KW  - Symphonies (Shostakovich, Dmitri�i Dmitrievich)
KW  - Composers
KW  - Russia
KW  - Biography
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Music and the war
KW  - Music
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Music and war
KW  - Saint Petersburg (Russia)
KW  - History
KW  - Siege, 1941-1944
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Saint Petersburg
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm. They ate family pets and -- eventually -- one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens -- the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory. This is the true story of a city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. It is also a look at the power and layered meaning of music in beleaguered lives
ER  -