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Mozart and Shostakovich

After performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, the Houston Symphony will fill Jones Hall with controversy. Mozart and Shostakovich ends with a performance of Shostakovich’s 1962 Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar. The five-part piece is based on the writings of Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, which denounced Stalin’s Soviet regime during…

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