Risky(er) Business

Axiom Quartet 1703 Heights Blvd, Houston, United States

Risky(er) Business celebrates Dmitri Shostakovich and Nikolai Roslavets, Soviet composers whose experiments and ideologies lived on the perilous line between favor and dissent in the 1920’s-’40s: when music represented power, politics, and the perspective of the people. When putting pen to paper wasn’t just risky. It was dangerous, even subversive. Which of them toed the […]