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Lev Knipper’s Song of the Plains sweeps across the Eurasian steppe as musical notes and a spy-like shadow evoke Polyushko-pole’s history.

🎵 “Song of the Plains” (Polyushko-pole): A Haunting Melody—and a Composer Who Was Also a Soviet Spy

Song of the Plains (Polyushko-pole) sounds like a melody handed down for centuries. It wasn’t. Lev Knipper’s haunting creation traveled from a 1934 Soviet symphony and the Red Army Choir to jazz, rock and popular culture—while its composer led an astonishing parallel life involving Soviet intelligence and reportedly an operation targeting Hitler.

 

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