A music blog written by Rich Brown
In this part of the world, it might finally be safe to get our gardens growing. The winter of 2014 brought a record amount of snow, and I’m glad it's all gone. The last frost has passed, the grass is growing, and flowers can go in the flower beds. Vegetable gardens can be planted... Continue Reading →
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 →
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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