So for the past several summers I've gone to the free summer concert series downtown
-AND-
The biggest crowd pleaser is not the pieces everyone knows - and I'm not talking in terms of applause, but absolute audience attentiveness where you can hear a pin drop because everyone is listening so intently - is anything by Shostakovich!
The two times they've played something by him (his violin concerto, a symphony) everyone listens crazy intensely. I wonder if that's why he got branded as a subversive under Stalin and couldn't write music... Everyone seems like they couldn't help but listen and seems noticeably disconcerted afterwards for no apparent reason.
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