On September 29th and 30th, 1941, over 33,000 Jews were murdered by the Nazis at the Babi Yar ravine near Kiev. Twenty-one years later, Shostakovich and Yevtushenko collaborated, within a Stalinist regime of repression, to bring to the public Shostakovich’s 13th symphony. In addition to the 1941 killing ground of Babi Yar, the first movement […]