GREENBERG LECTURE SERIES: DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

Our third session finds that World War II has greatly lightened Stalin’s artistic repressions, as any expressionistic art and negative content, including Shostakovich’s very dark work of 1941-45, is directly attributed to the Nazi invasion. Post-war, the terror returns and Shostakovich is again purged in 1948, and slowly rehabilitated until Stalin’s death in 1953.

For over 20 years, Robert Greenberg has presented his music lecture series in concert halls, universities, and boardrooms nationally.  An accomplished composer with over 45 works to his name, Greenberg has also recorded best-selling audio courses for the acclaimed Teaching Company.