American Symphony: "Hollow Victory"

American Symphony: "Hollow Victory"

Despite the brutal suppression of their culture in the late 1940s under Stalin, Jewish composers sustained a vibrant and active musical culture in Russia, as these grippingly beautiful works reveal. Maestro Leon Bostein leads the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard Festival Chorus and vocal soloists in a concert performance of "Rothschild's Violin", a one-act opera by Veniamin Fleischman and Dmitri Shostakovich, inspired by a Chekhov story. You'll also hear Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Symphony No. 5 and "Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes" in this ASO show dubbed "Hollow Victory: Jews in Soviet Russia After the World War." Botstein shares the stories behind the music in a lively 30-minute Q&A before the concert, presented by the ASO at Carnegie Hall.