Before I began writing this review I put Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony on my CD player. This symphony, known as the Leningrad Symphony, is the inspiration for a new and wonderful history by M ...

A St. Petersburg city official has publicly thanked the music group Leningrad for its latest song, “In Peter, You Drink.” Viktor Kononov, the head of the city’s Tourism Development Committee, said the ...

April 1988 is still seared into singer Klaus Meine's memory. Less than a decade earlier, he and his bandmates in the Scorpions had conquered America; now, the German metal group was taking its brand ...

MOSCOW, January 15. /ITAR-TASS/. Little-known music pieces composed in Leningrad during the 900-days siege of the city by Nazi troops from September 1941 through to January 1944 will be performed in a ...

This fall the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s focus has been unusually sombre, including two British works — Vaughan Williams’s Fourth Symphony and Britten’s War Requiem — that grappled with the modern ...

M.T. Anderson is a veteran author of books for children and young adults (his “The Pox Party” won the National Book Award in 2006). But he called his newest book “a total departure.” In “Symphony for ...