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The musical and political strands of Dmitri Shostakovich's life were intertwined like the braids of a noose.

The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?

It isn't the choir of small boys, casting about, singing shyly or
It isn't  with perfect oval mouths,

About fifteen years ago, looking for something to play on my college radio station, I cued up a reel-to-reel tape I'd found in a pile by the wall--and fell in love.

Near the end of Parallels and Paradoxes, a recent collection of
dialogues on music and society between the conductor and pianist Daniel
Barenboim, music director of the Chicago Symphony