composers
Stalin, Zhdanov, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich star in ‘Stalin’s Master Class’
April 22, 2024Politics collide with art, terror, and rich helpings of morbid comic relief when “Father of the People” Joseph Stalin and Soviet Cultural Minister Andrei Zhdanov summon the Soviet Union’s two most eminent composers, Sergei Prokofiev and...
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Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis: A life of music and resistance
September 7, 2021Theodorakis’s works were censored for his political views and activities. He was jailed, tortured, and forced into exile. He was associated with the Greek left for most of his life and was elected to the Greek...
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Radical American composer Frederic Rzewski dead at 83
July 1, 2021Frederic Rzewski, the American composer and pianist, is considered one of the most important serious music figures of our time.
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The revolutionary history of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
December 8, 2020Like few other composers, Beethoven expresses the will for freedom, the democratic longing of the people.
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