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 ...

Montreal’s Les George Leningrad should be absolutely unbearable. They’re still steeped in the post-punk and no-wave revivals, several years after those crazes faded. The kitschy riffs and garbled ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By James R. Oestreich Context may not be everything in music but it can count for a lot. And the context for a performance of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leningrad, a legendary Russian rock band founded in 1997, has appeared in the music festival Coachella’s 2020 lineup. Leningrad (or Ленинград, as the festival named it) is scheduled to perform in the ...

In early 1941, Dmitri Shostakovich was nervous. He was one of Soviet Russia's most brilliant composers, but he had fallen out of favor with the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin. He'd been forced to ...