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Poems and prose are constrained by the boundary of words, limited to the alphabet’s small alphabet of symbols. Paintings are fenced in by pigment and canvas, their emotion frozen by the moment of their completion. But music breathes as it moves through time in an unfixed, intangible and often an inexplicable manner- speaking directly to
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Symphony of Censorship When Dmitri Shostakovich premiered Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1934, its bold orchestration and raw emotional intensity shocked and thrilled Soviet audiences—until it terrified the regime. The modernist and sexually charged opera where Shostakovich intended to show the patriarchal society in which we live in, where through frustration and years of abuse
