Symphony for the city of the dead :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
456 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
Summary
An account of the Siege of Leningrad reveals the role played by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony in rallying and commemorating their fellow citizens.
Call Number
940.54 AND / TEEN
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
ISBN
9780763668181
Symphony for the city of the dead :
Author
Format:
Sound recording
Physical Description
1 audio media player (620 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2015]
Summary
An amazing WW2 survival story of a time and place largely unfamiliar to today's teen reader: of an unlikely hero squeezed between the German invader and the Soviet government itself. Impeccably researched: eye-witness accounts provide anecdotal detail to a chilling story of the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. An account of the Siege of Leningrad reveals the role played by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony in rallying and commemorating their fellow citizens.
Call Number
YA PLAYAWAY 940.5421 AND
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781511326674
Symphony for the city of the dead :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
456 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Production / Publication Information
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2017.
Summary
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm. They ate family pets and -- eventually -- one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens -- the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory. This is the true story of a city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. It is also a look at the power and layered meaning of music in beleaguered lives.
Call Number
780.92 AND YA
Publication Date
2017, 2015
Language
English
ISBN
9780763691004
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