Dmitri Shostakovich lived through one of the most dangerous periods in Soviet history. His career was shaped by constant ...

Celebrating its 14th annual spring concert, Melodious Notes Over the Harbor returns March 28 at the Community Theatre. The ...

When guns speak, the muses keep silent, says an old Russian proverb. Last winter, as he listened to the roar of German artillery and watched the sputtering of German incendiaries from the roof of ...

Dimitri Shostakovich. An example of what some argue is arts inability to flourish without freedom? Or was he a brilliant political rebel forced into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Joseph ...

Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent. By David Allen Banned for decades in the Soviet Union ...

Rhein Main Airport, Germany, March 22, 1949: Russian composer and pianist Dimitri Shostakovich (center, with glasses) is surrounded by reporters and photographers at Rhein Main Airport. The famous ...

Christopher Hampton ('The Father') is adapting Julian Barnes' Booker Prize-winning novel about Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich and his wife Nina. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The film ...

The Journey of Dimitri Shostakovich is structured for no apparent reason around a nine-day ocean voyage the ailing composer took near the end of his life. On the Mikhail Lermontov, a Soviet pleasure ...

Co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies celebrate the birthdays of composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Gustav Holst. We'll hear violinist Mayu Kishima bring warmth to Shostakovich's searing A minor ...

When Dmitri Shostakovich announced he’d written a 15th Symphony, his fans might have expected another excursion into darkness. It was 1971, and the composer had heart problems as well as neurological ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s fitting that conductor Pablo Heras-Casado should be leading The Cleveland Orchestra this week in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 — the work of a mid-career composer who ...

Every composer has an inspiration, a figure from the past whom they strive to emulate. Dimitri Shostakovich admired J.S. Bach, and since Shosty is almost 100, we introduce his celebrations with a ...