John Adams writes on Jeremy Eichler’s book “Time’s Echo,” which examines the varying ways that Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten addressed the Second World War in their music.
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In his extraordinarily moving book, Eichler reminds us that some of the greatest 20th-century memorials were erected in the seemingly ephemeral but emotionally enveloping medium of music.
At a fraught contemporary moment, the BSO performed Shostakovich’s “Babi Yar” on Thursday night in Symphony Hall, concluding its traversal of the composer’s complete symphonies.