Amid some of the most difficult circumstances, Dmitri Shostakovich has composed powerful symphonies capturing the hardships, triumphs and ironies of life in Soviet Russia. Hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich’s turbulent Symphony No. 8 — which the composer privately described as a "poem of suffering” when he wrote it during WWII — with conductor Vladimir Jurowski on April 27-29. Get tickets → cso.org/23377 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra