During the first decade of this century, the Minnesota Orchestra gradually became an international buzz band, as audiences and journalists raved about how this group had grown under Osmo Vanska’s ...

Many artists who perform the music of Dmitri Shostakovich have a deep feeling for the often-beleaguered 20th-century Russian composer, who survived Soviet purges and denunciations to write technically ...

This year marks the centenary of Dmitry Shostakovich's birth. Active from the Stalin through the Brezhnev regimes, the revered 20th-century Russian composer witnessed some of the darkest moments of ...

Last week, the college-town of Bloomington, Ind., shivered in record low temperatures. But the frigid weather didn't stop the Pacifica Quartet - the string quartet in residence on the sprawling ...

Valery Gergiev has had to endure a good deal of drama so far this season, visible most recently in the heckling of anti-Putin protesters during Thursday night’s concert at Carnegie Hall. On Friday, ...

The Sarasota Orchestra's Journey to Genius programs march on in a new direction with "Shostakovich: Truth or Consequences," a high impact, multimedia event that climaxed with a performance of the ...

There are many examples of major symphonies having complicated births but none are more intriguing than that to which Dmitri Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony was sentenced back in 1936. To say his work, ...

Now that a power-centralizing, criticism-averse leader is again ruling Russia, and Cold War-related feelings are spreading deja vu all over the place, there’s fresh value in re-hearing the story ...

Just a few weeks ago, Israeli-born cellist Inbal Segev was giving a concert in Brooklyn of all six Bach Cello Suites, arguably a pinnacle of the cello repertoire, over two days. (That performance came ...

Once he was John-Boy (for those who remember “The Waltons”), but since then Richard Thomas has gone on to bigger things, including a Tony nomination for "The Little Foxes" in 2017 and playing an F.B.I ...