# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Act of Defiance: Walton & Shostakovich
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 30 May, 2025 at 07:45 pm
- **Event Description**: Walton: Cello Concerto 
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 

*** 

Dinis Sousa: Conductor  
Nicholas Altstaedt: Cello 
 
***

Was it, or wasn’t it, an act of defiance and bitter retort to Stalin’s displeasure? 

Shostakovich’s life was so utterly and constantly in peril that he could never publicly declare whether his Fifth Symphony was simply ‘a Soviet artist’s reply to just criticism’ or a satirical puncturing of the dictator, deliberately hollow but dressed as adulation. 

But either way, it’s a phenomenal piece of music – playful, poignant and magisterial, it’s a blockbuster end to the Season. 

Walton’s lyrically romantic Cello Concerto sets the scene for Shostakovich’s dramatic fireworks.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/belfast/act-of-defiance-walton-and-shostakovich/200026993351735
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, concerts, art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.ulsterorchestra.org.uk/whats-on/30-may-25_sousa_altstaedt_shostakovich-symphony-no-5/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=belfast-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Belfast
- **state**: NI
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Ulster Hall
- **lat**: 54.594614444702
- **long**: -5.9305175732561
- **full address**: Ulster Hall, 34 Bedford Street,Belfast, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Ulster Orchestra (https://allevents.in/org/ulster-orchestra/10928686)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 30 May, 2025 at 07:45 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Ulster Hall, 34 Bedford Street,Belfast, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Ulster Orchestra
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, entertainment, concerts, art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Act of Defiance: Walton & Shostakovich ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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