The second part, the scherzo, is a musical portrait of Stalin." Listen out for: What the piece says about Stalin. Scherzo means 'joke', so while Shostakovich was pretending to write 'good ...

In the second phase, planet e, anchored in the receding inner edge of the disk, would have found itself being dragged outwards, away from planets b, c and d and towards the worlds forming in the ...

His Second Symphony, To October, was less successful despite its rousing choral finale and revolutionary sentiments. Shostakovich, when he apologised for his errors, said he would try to do better and ...

Former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated a second time in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, just weeks after the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris is a gun owner. Apparently that fact is supposed to make other gun owners less leery of her stance on Second Amendment issues. There’s just one ...

Schwalm, Helga 2020. Imagining Compromised Creativity: Art and Fear in Shostakovich Bio-Fiction. Slavonica, Vol. 25, Issue. 1, p. 25. Mildorf, Jarmila 2023. Reflections on Music in Fiction: Rose ...

LSO/Antonio Pappano Barbican ★★★★☆ The debut of a new chief conductor is always eagerly awaited.

Peltokoski’s understanding of trajectory was clear from the way he unwound the first movement – from that tragic opening ...

A mortgage for a vacation home is similar to that of your primary residence, except for a few critical differences: Second home mortgage rates tend to be higher, and it may be harder to qualify ...

Rep. Mike Waltz said he’s not satisfied with the repeated assertions by the FBI and Secret Service that Donald Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone. Waltz told The Post ...