Shostakovich is born in St Petersburg on September 25 to Dmitrij Boleslavovich Shostakovich (1875-1922), a government inspector of weights and measures, and his wife Sofja Vasilevna (1878-1955 ...

The importance of Shostakovich's music means that it features regularly in CD Review's Building a Library feature. This page presents a sequence of Building a Library Bach features dating back to ...

Following his death, the government of the USSR issued the following summary of Shostakovich’s work, drawing attention to a ‘remarkable example of fidelity to the traditions of musical classicism, and ...

REM backstage at the Songwriters Hall of Fame (left to right): Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry Earlier this week, rock group REM joked it would take "a comet" to bring the ...

Casa da Música / OMA. Image © Fernando Stankuns via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The Simone Veil Bridge, designed by OMA / Rem Koolhaas and Chris van Duijn, has ...

You may be able to increase the amount of REM sleep you get by following a sleep schedule daily, getting regular exercise during the day, and meditating, among other steps. Insomnia, undiagnosed ...

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, closed and then reopened an exhibition that unpacked the concept of the cowboy, critiquing it through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, ...

The borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro is hoping a change at City Hall will revive a project killed by the Plante administration to build an urban boulevard through the western part of the borough.

But the short version is that this new work tells the many-layered story of the friendship between the great pianist, Maria Yudina, and the composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. It is written by Ian Kelly – ...

Every once in a while, you get lucky enough to have both inexpensive and top-notch. In 1948, Remington released the Model 721 and 722 rifles, which incorporated design features never before seen ...

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Tough on the outside and tough on long beards, the Remington B5 boats an excellent spread of cutting lengths thanks to its simple jog-wheel dial that moves a removable comb up and down over the ...