An orchestral program of Mozart’s darkest piano concerto and Shostakovich’s most complex symphony would challenge a conductor under any circumstances. Thursday night at Meyerson Symphony Center, the ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Guest conductor Marin Alsop's ...
Over the final four weeks of the 2024–25 Symphony Hall season (Apr. 6–May 3), Andris Nelsons caps his tenth anniversary season at Symphony Hall by revisiting the music of Dmitri Shostakovich that has ...
On Jan. 28, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich woke up to read a sternly worded condemnation of his music in the official Soviet newspaper, Pravda. Never mind that the work in question (his opera “Lady Macbeth ...
As Michigan conductors wave their batons, symphony orchestras across the state are ready to take the stage and share classical music.
The Seventh Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich is combat reporting from one of the most devastating events in modern times. On June 22, 1941, Hitler's army invaded the Soviet Union. By late August the ...
The major success of Andris Nelsons’ still brief career as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s music director must be his advocacy of the orchestral music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Certainly no BSO ...
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