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 →
The last post was about the scandalous uproar at the ballet premiere of The Rite of Spring. The riot at opening night of The Rite is one of the most famous stories in music. On February 18, 1914 the music was played in its first concert performance (music only, no dance). This orchestra premiere (nine... Continue Reading →
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