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 Dmitri ...
A year into the siege of Leningrad, a haggard group of musicians defiantly — and improbably — performed Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7,... Amid Hunger And Cold, An Unforgettable Symphony ...
Deadline.com: ‘Leningrad’ Series From Michael Hirst In the Works Based On Anna Reid’s Book About Epic WWII Siege
‘Leningrad’ Series From Michael Hirst In the Works Based On Anna Reid’s Book About Epic WWII Siege
During the Nazis’ siege of Leningrad, which lasted from September 1941 to January 1944, the city’s radio station broadcast the sound of a metronome. Its steady tick-tock between programs reassured ...
World Socialist Web Site: New York Philharmonic will not perform Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony
The siege of Leningrad—872 days of relentless bombardment, starvation, and an unforgiving winter that turned the Neva River into a frozen tomb—remains one of history’s most haunting testaments to ...
Times of San Diego: Review: Rafael Payare conducts Shostakovich’s massive ‘Leningrad’ with thrilling force
Rafael Payare conducts the symphony. Photo courtesy San Diego Symphony There’s no mystery why Mahler and Shostakovich both happened to write ambitiously massive symphonies — in length, orchestral size ...
After a highly successful debut at the head of the OBC season, conducting Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, the Russian conductor Vassily Sinaisky visits us again, this time with the Seventh, the ...