Dmitri Shostakovich facts
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Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich was so obsessive that he regularly sent cards to himself to test how well the postal service was working.
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Dmitri Shostakovich was fired from being a movie theater pianist because he couldn't stop laughing at the American comedies.
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Russian 20th Century Composer Dmitri Shostakovich attended Jesus Christ Superstar before he died and absolutely loved it
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In 1942, the score for Dmitri Shostakovich's newly-composed Seventh Symphony was flown into besieged Leningrad, where it was performed by an orchestra made up of the city's last, starving musicians - to an hour-long ovation.
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During WWII while the city of Leningrad was under siege by the Germans a composer named Dmitri Shostakovich performed a symphony with the surviving musicians and of some he had managed to find from the town around him and that some of them died of starvation during the practice and recital.
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Albert Einstein, Marlon Brando, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein held a rally for world peace in 1948 at the Waldorf Astoria that was attended by Dmitry Shostakovich and was later picketed by Norman Mailer.
