Getting in the mood for the start of Seattle Symphony’s two-concert Shostakovich Concerto Festival.
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May 31, 2016 • 7:58 am Comments Off on Pairing Masterpieces by Shostakovich and Stravinsky
Pairing Masterpieces by Shostakovich and Stravinsky
Here’s my new story for the Seattle Times on this week’s upcoming Seattle Symphony program:
On Jan. 28, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich woke up to read a sternly worded condemnation of his music in the official Soviet newspaper, Pravda.
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August 29, 2015 • 1:52 pm Comments Off on Opening Night of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Opening Night of the Berliner Philharmoniker
The new season opened with a masterful pairing of early Britten and Shostakovich: in fact, with what is arguably the most thrilling and audacious symphony Shostakovich ever wrote, the — bafflingly, frustratingly rarely programmed — Symphony No. 4.
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliners will bring the same program to the Lucerne Festival on Tuesday.
Here’s more info and a link to the performance in BP’s Digital Concert Hall.
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