FESTIVAL OPENING: Reception + Film Screening: Shostakovich Against Stalin: The War Symphonies

6:30pm Festival Opening Reception | 7:30pm Film Screening
FREE/Donations welcome, registration required

Join OCM Artistic Director Doug Anderson for his opening remarks about this timely festival, celebrating the tenacity of the human spirit. The reception will be followed by Shostakovich Against Stalin: The War Symphonies, a powerful documentary exploring Dmitri Shostakovich's wartime symphonies against the backdrop of Stalin's Soviet Union. Weaving together remarkable archival footage, moving personal testimony, and stirring performances, this acclaimed film examines how Shostakovich's wartime symphonies came to symbolize artistic courage and resilience in the face of totalitarian rule.