"It is the greatest disaster that has ever befallen any great city, and that includes Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all the contenders," Brian Moynahan, author of Leningrad: Siege and Symphony ...

During a trip to Russia I found life dictated by an insatiable drive for upward mobility and consumption, but pragmatism when ...

In the summer of 1942, Leningrad was starving. It had been under siege and bombardment by German forces for nearly a year. And yet an orchestra managed to perform a new symphony by the composer ...

But on Thursday night, principal percussionist Joseph Petrasek drew the focus during the opening movement of Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad" by Dmitri Shostakovich. Petrasek, who joined the ASO in ...

In an act of defiance during World War Two, starving musicians in the besieged city of Leningrad performed Shostakovich's new Seventh Symphony. The piece was composed especially for the city ...

Russian conductor Tugan Sokhiev was originally scheduled to lead the famous Leningrad Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich. The Leningrad has been cancelled and Sokhiev will not be on the podium.

The Mount Rushmore State is the setting for us to explore Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, also known as the “Leningrad Symphony.” The piece was composed during the Siege of Leningrad when ...

Exuberant & Witty. Performed by Russia’s eminent cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, and the visiting Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, the 28-minute concerto emerged as a work of compelling rhythms ...

leading Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” symphony. “I was shaking,” the viola leader recalled of that day in Prague’s Rudolfinum. “He smiled at me and from this moment, I knew that I can ...