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It is 1955 in the Soviet Union. Dmitri Shostakovich, a man whose life has been a tightrope walk between state-sponsored fame and the threat of the Gulag, is tasked with writing music for a film called The First Echelon . The movie is meant to celebrate young volunteers working on remote farms—the "Virgin Lands"—under a harsh, freezing sky.
James Curnow gave the wind band a timeless gift with this arrangement. Support his work, buy the PDF, and watch your audience fall in love with Shostakovich’s tragic waltz. waltz no 2 by dmitri shostakovich arr james curnow pdf link