The Emerson Quartet, already widely known for its devotion to the 15 string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich, is taking a deeper journey into the composer's music and even into his psyche with ...

Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich died in 1975 without completing his dream of setting Anton Chekhov’s short story, “The Black Monk,” as an opera. Thanks to playwright James Glossman and musician ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has released details of its 12-concert festival, May 27 to June 12 at Symphony Center, celebrating the music of Russia’s most important composer of the 20th Century, ...

The debate about “meaning” in Dmitri Shostakovich’s output has gone on for almost 30 years, so some may be unaware that there once was a time when interpretations of his scores were derived not from ...