'Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that'. So said the Russian composer, Shostakovich, who spent his l... » 

'Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that'. So said the Russian composer, Shostakovich, who spent his life battling for the right to create his works under the Soviet Union's totalitarian regime. «