Here & Now classical music opinionator Fran Hoepfner joins host Callum Borchers to discuss 20th-century Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s jazzy “Suite for Variety Orchestra.”
Hoepfner says “it’s a reminder to feel joy and mischief during a time when maybe we feel guilty for doing so.”
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