" It's risky business to speak for the dead. In the terrible case of Dmitri Shostakovich, the temptation is strong, because history, in the form of Stalin, didn't allow the composer to speak for himself. Of course, there's the music, but music is reticent about meaning"like a therapist, it prefers you draw your own conclusions." […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM on June 22, 2016