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While Shostakovich played, the nervous tics that habitually plagued his features disappeared. He seemed almost happy. And so I grew up with a sense of tantalizing proximity to genius and history and to the men who made it\u2014one with music, another with the monument that enshrined it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55908,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[18766,18772,18771,18770],"tags":[16785,17669,17670,17600,9691,9560,17671,9495,9658,17599,10345],"daily-type":[9466],"coauthors":[16564],"class_list":["post-65968","daily","type-daily","status-publish","hentry","category-arts","category-history","category-ideas","category-music","tag-classical-music","tag-dmitri-shostakovich","tag-joseph-stalin","tag-leningrad","tag-moscow","tag-music","tag-novorossiysk","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union","tag-ussr","tag-world-war-ii","daily-type-nyr-daily","author-roles-by","author-cap-anastasia-edel"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/nybooks.com\/online\/2019\/04\/08\/shostakovich-my-grandfather-and-the-chimes-of-novorossiysk\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Shostakovich, My Grandfather, and the Chimes of Novorossiysk","url":"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2019\/04\/08\/shostakovich-my-grandfather-and-the-chimes-of-novorossiysk\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2019\/04\/08\/shostakovich-my-grandfather-and-the-chimes-of-novorossiysk\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"History","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Anastasia Edel"}],"creator":["Anastasia Edel"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The New York Review of Books","logo":""},"keywords":["classical music","dmitri shostakovich","joseph stalin","leningrad","moscow","music","novorossiysk","russia","soviet union","ussr","world war ii"],"dateCreated":"2019-04-08T10:00:34Z","datePublished":"2019-04-08T10:00:34Z","dateModified":"2020-06-26T02:30:56Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Shostakovich, My Grandfather, and the Chimes of Novorossiysk\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.nybooks.com\\\/online\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/08\\\/shostakovich-my-grandfather-and-the-chimes-of-novorossiysk\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.nybooks.com\\\/online\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/08\\\/shostakovich-my-grandfather-and-the-chimes-of-novorossiysk\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"History\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Anastasia Edel\"}],\"creator\":[\"Anastasia Edel\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"The New York Review of Books\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"classical music\",\"dmitri shostakovich\",\"joseph stalin\",\"leningrad\",\"moscow\",\"music\",\"novorossiysk\",\"russia\",\"soviet union\",\"ussr\",\"world war ii\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2019-04-08T10:00:34Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-08T10:00:34Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-06-26T02:30:56Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nybooks.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/daily\/65968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/daily"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/daily"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/daily\/65968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65968"},{"taxonomy":"daily-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/daily-type?post=65968"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=65968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}