Before I began writing this review I put Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony on my CD player. This symphony, known as the Leningrad Symphony, is the inspiration for a new and wonderful history by M ...

M.T. Anderson is a veteran author of books for children and young adults (his “The Pox Party” won the National Book Award in 2006). But he called his newest book “a total departure.” In “Symphony for ...

On a visit to Moscow to see his grandparents in 1941, 6-year-old Alfred Schnittke registered at a music school but never did receive an education there. War broke out in June of that year, when ...

In early 1941, Dmitri Shostakovich was nervous. He was one of Soviet Russia's most brilliant composers, but he had fallen out of favor with the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin. He'd been forced to ...

In the orchestral world, unlike the funk atmosphere inhabited by James Brown when he uttered that familiar phrase, well-worn repertoire doesn't usually highlight the percussion section. But on ...

The Leningrad Dixieland Jazz Band is one of the oldest jazz bands in Europe. Since it was formed in the late 1950's, it has deserved a reputation of a group of very talented and hard-working musicians ...

Leningrad, a Russian rock band that hails from Saint Petersburg, recently released a new music video for their song “Tattoo Artist,” which plays out a spectacular sequence of events — in reverse. The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Byron Janis, considered our greatest living pianist, unveils Live from Leningrad, ...

MOSCOW, January 15. /ITAR-TASS/. Little-known music pieces composed in Leningrad during the 900-days siege of the city by Nazi troops from September 1941 through to January 1944 will be performed in a ...

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