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Tuesday, January 13 /1:30 pm The City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson The story of the early life and music of Dmitri Shostakovich, a Leningrad resident, and how things changed during the war. It highlights his ability to have channeled the war and suffering into a symphony that helped rally the people of Leningrad during the siege of Leningrad by the German army during WWII. It also depicts the personality of Stalin and his repressive regime.