A music blog written by Rich Brown
Dmitri Shostakovich is a Russian composer whose musical career is entangled with the history of Soviet Russia. He lived from 1906 to 1975, and in his lifetime saw the Bolshevik revolution overthrow tsarist rule, the Russian civil war, and the totalitarian Soviet State. He saw the regimes of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev.... Continue Reading →
I don’t see the flaw in my plan. I can’t tell where it went wrong. March 20, 2014 is the first day of Spring on every calendar I can find. I blasted The Rite of Spring from my stereo as loud as possible, put on my shorts and sunglasses, then took the lawnmower to the... Continue Reading →
Schubert's Symphony in B minor is the "Unfinished" symphony, usually listed as number eight of the ten that our friend Franz left us. There are only two movements, what seems to be the first two movements of what normally would have been a four movement symphony. The unfinished beginning of something we don't have the... Continue Reading →
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