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Alexander Glazunov is not a well known or highly respected composer today: he is more remembered as the alcoholic conductor who ruined the premiere...
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This week’s show is a rebroadcast from Cedar Rapids, Iowa , but we hadn’t posted a listening guide when it first aired. Keep reading to learn wha...
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Barbican, London Though political history is never far away in discussions of Dmitri Shostakovich, the same is less true of his contemporary Ben...
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At the spiritual centre of this exciting re-match between Mark Elder and the
London Symphony Orchestra was Benjamin Britten’s intellectual and e...
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The week’s From the Top broadcas t was taped at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City, Iowa, on February 24, 2010. We asked our performers to tell us...
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Tonight in Madrid, Petr Kotik, the longtime leader of the S. E. M. Ensemble in New York, will lead the Orquesta de la Comunidad de
Madrid in a ...
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(Orchid Classics) Four succeeding generations of St Petersburg's finest - Glinka, Balakirev, Glazunov and Shostakovich - are represented on this ...
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Fans can vote online to help KeepingScore.org win the Web’s top honor
The San Francisco Symphony’s Keeping Score website has been nominated ...
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The Principal Guest Conductor Douglas Boyd was on the podium tonight with the Colorado Symphony. His command of the rich romantic language from Si...
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With Shostakovich’s “The Nose” playing at the Metropolitan Opera, it seems a good moment to check in on the world of Shostakovich-playing college a...
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March 14, 2010, 4:14PM View full size wikipedia.org Dmitri Shostakovich in 1942 Dmitri Shostakovich 's Fifth Symphony is powerful, challenging, and...
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Dmitri Shostakovich composed his first opera, "The Nose," more than 80 years ago and based it on a short story written nearly a century before that.
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Tonight in New York, South African mixed-media artist William Kentridge debuts as director and set designer for Dmitri Shostakovich's satirical...
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Bion Tsang, cello, is in Louisville this week to perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Louisville Orchestra as conducted ...
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The March issue of Opera News celebrates two upcoming Metropolitan Opera productions, both new to New York City's opera-goers: Ambroise Thomas'...
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(The ghosts of Leningrad, now St Petersberg, as captured by the great Alexey Titarenko )
For all that readers are seeing a lot about Gustav Mahl...
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When musicians know they're about to die, they seldom produce their greatest work. But there are exceptions, including the late Cincinnati Pops con...
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When musicians know they're about to die, they seldom produce their greatest work. But there are exceptions, including the late Cincinnati Pops con...
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Since Valentine’s Day and the Chinese New Year are celebrated on the same day this year, here is music from the Butterfly Lover’s Concerto, one of ...
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“Nothing communicates better than art. It is quicker than language and clearer than philosophy.” Frederick Weisman
I’ve been using Twitter to qu...
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