on sunday 10/30/16, anticipating an impending right-wing takeover of the united states government, i chose the following works to air on "dead white guys", WCBN's euro-classical radio program:

Life With An Idiot
opera by Alfred Schnittke
"an allegory of oppression"
premiered in 1992

Allegro non troppo from
Symphony No.8 by
Dmitri Shostakovich

Essay on Pigs
Hans Werner Henze 1968

Ballad on Approving of the World
verses by Bertolt Brecht
set by Hans Eisler as Op.42, 1944

Piano Trio No.2 in E Minor Op.67
Dmitri Shostakovich 1944

excerpt from Stimmung
Karlheinz Stockhausen 1968