Music is the most powerful weapon in the world!Do you know why Shostakovich's 7th Symphony is called the "Leningrad" Symphony? Rina Lu will explain it to you:
When the Germans and Finns were bombing and starving Leningrad, they expected a long, hopeless scream from a dying city. Instead, they heard Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7.
By August 1942 the siege had lasted nearly a year. Musicians of the Leningrad Radio Orchestra had already died of starvation. When rehearsals resumed in March, only 15 emaciated players were strong enough to hold their instruments. Conductor Karl Eliasberg was so weak he had to be carried to early rehearsals.
Yet on 9 August the orchestra performed the Leningrad Symphony in a packed Philharmonic Hall. Loudspeakers carried the music across the starving city - and straight to the German lines.
Flutist Galina Lelyukhina later recalled: “The Germans went insane. They thought the city was dead!”After the war two German soldiers told Eliasberg that hearing the concert convinced them they would lose: “We felt your will, which could overcome hunger, fear and even death.”
Watch the story of that concert. This is what resilience sounded like under the blockade. #nazis #germany #ussr #ww2 #war #music #Shostakovich
Schostakowitsch: 7. Sinfonie (»Leningrader«) ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Klaus Mäkelä
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