The Rest is Noise: The Art of Fear

The sixth instalment of The Rest is Noise festival looks at music composed in the dark times of the 1930s and 40s under the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, both of whom had pretensions of being enlightened patrons of the arts.
  
  


The art of fear: Dmitry Shostakovich
Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich. Photograph: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis
The art of fear: Dmitri Shostakovich
Shostakovich working on his famous Seventh ('Leningrad') Symphony in 1941. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
The art of fear: Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein, film director Photograph: Ronald Grant
The art of fear: 'Aleksandr Nevsky'
1938. Soviet actor Nikolay Cherkasov on the set of Aleksandr Nevskiy (Alexander Nevsky), directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev Photograph: Mosfilm/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis
Art of fear update 2: Josef Stalin
Josef Stalin delivers a speech in Moscow in April 1935. Photograph: AP
The art of fear: Leni Riefenstahl
A still from Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, which chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. Photograph: Ronald Grant
The art of fear: Nazi Rally
16 September 1935: German dictator Adolf Hitler salutes Nazi soldiers during a parade in Nuremberg. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
The art of fear: Leni Riefenstahl
German film maker Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) and cameraman Walter Frentz at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
The art of fear: Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953). Photograph: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis
The art of fear: Olivier Messiaen
French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), photographed in March 1952. Photograph: Lipnitzki/Roger Viollet/Getty Images
The art of fear: Hitler At Exhibition
German chancellor Adolf Hitler accompanied by Joseph Goebbels at the 1938 Nazi Art Exhibition, during the 'Day of German Art' celebrations at Munich. The exhibition included a five-mile parade representing 2,000 years of German culture. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
The art of fear: Adolf Hitler at the opera
Adolf Hitler attends the opera in Salzburg City Theatre. Photography by Atelier Ellinger, 1939. Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images
The art of fear: Defence of Leningrad
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer, (front, in glasses) during the Siege of Leningrad, 1941 Photograph: Alamy
Art of fear update: Josef Stalin
2 January 1950, Moscow, Russian leader Josef Stalin pictured at his 70th birthday celebrations in the Bolshoi Theatre receiving gifts of flowers from members of the Moscow Young Pioneers. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
Art of fear update 2: Josef Stalin
General Secretary of the Communist Party of USSR Stalin with his retinue, May 1938. Photograph: Mondadori/Getty Images
The art of fear: George Orwell
George Orwell, British writer and journalist, at a typewriter Photograph: Mondadori/Getty Images
 

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