Risky(er) Business

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 line safely, and which landed on the wrong side of scrutiny – and survival? Join the Axiom Quartet as we piece together that history through music.