Van Cliburn Piano Competition winner Olga Kern to perform with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra on Feb. 8. Known for her ...

Dmitri Shostakovich ... Leader and the Seventh Symphony, the “Leningrad,” with its terrorizing invasion theme, based on a true Nazi story. The Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor (1933) is a ...

Dmitri Shostakovich composed over 30 film scores throughout his career. One of his most beloved melodies, the Romance from The Gadfly, outshined the film it was written for. Hear why Shostakovich ...

His Fourth Symphony fared no better as far as musical officialdom went and it was withdrawn before its first performance. With the Fifth Symphony (1937) Shostakovich was allowed in from the cold, as ...

Dmitri Shostakovich and four other outstanding Russian composers will visit the University Saturday afternoon as part of a month-long tour of the United States, under the cultural exchange program ...

At the end of an exhausting week in which Holocaust Memorial Day struck a more urgent note than ever as fascism started tearing through the USA, parts of this concert were bound to hit hard. That they ...