Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, Part 2

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

Joshua Weilerstein

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🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Last week I told you the story of the genesis of Shostakovich’s 5th symphony. We talked politics, but we also talked about just the music itself. Today, I’ll take you through the second half of the symphony, again first from a musical point of view. But by the end of the piece, the political conversation and the debate over the ending itself becomes unavoidable. There is no other piece whose character or even tempo is as debated as the ending of Shostakovich’s 5th, so we're going to have it out! Join us!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the Classical Music Podcast.
0:06.6	My name is Joshua Weatherstein, I'm a conductor, and I'm the Music Director of the Phoenix
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0:47.7	So I am in London getting ready to head Omicron willing to Kansas City next week for a
0:53.5	concert with the Kansas City Symphony, which will feature William Grant Stills' poem for
0:58.0	orchestra, The Gershwin, Concerto, and F with John Kamora Parker, and the piece that I
1:02.3	started talking about last weekend will finish talking about this week, Shostakovich's
1:07.5	monumental fifth symphony.
1:09.4	After that, I will be heading to Boston for my very first concert as Music Director of
1:14.0	the Phoenix Orchestra.
1:15.0	I'm really excited for that.
1:17.1	And very quickly, I just want to mention my Patreon page, because I'm going to be doing
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