Dmitri Shostakovich

Whenever a colleague pointed out a "mistake" in one of Dmitri Shostakovich's compositions, he invariably responded, "Oh, I'll fix that in my next piece."

The Snare of Perfectionism: When Artists Aim Too High Terry Teachout 2011

His sentence was commuted in 1965 after protests from cultural figures like Dmitri Shostakovich and Jean-Paul Sartre.

George Heymont: A Rare Look at Soviet-Era Political Cartoons George Heymont 2011

Dmitri Shostakovich works on his Leningrad Symphony as Nazi invaders besiege the city.

How the great symphonies became our soundtrack to a changing world 2011

"The Nose" was 21-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich's first opera, produced in 1930 and based on a comic novella by Nicolaï Gogol written almost a century earlier—a mordant satire of Czarist rather than Soviet bureaucracy.

An Ingeniously Staged 'Nose' Judy Fayard 2011

“The Bright Stream”, a ballet by Dmitri Shostakovich set on a collective farm that featured dancers carrying 5-foot-long potatoes, was forced to close after a bad review by Josef Stalin.

Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer Con Chapman 2011

Despite being hailed by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich as a "perfect masterpiece", the opera was banned by the Soviet Union and it did not receive its world premiere until it was staged in Bregenz, Austria, last year.

Musical 'masterpiece' captures horror of Auschwitz 2011

The night before he was dismissed, Ms. Gambale steeled herself for the "tumultuous day" with a CD of Dmitri Shostakovich 's Symphony No. 5 in D Minor packed just for that purpose in a New York hotel room.

Cranking Up Your Private Pep Rally John Jurgensen 2011

“The Bright Stream,” a ballet by Dmitri Shostakovich set on a collective farm that featured dancers carrying 5-foot-long potatoes, was forced to close after a bad review by Josef Stalin.

Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer Con Chapman 2012

It coupled the sixth symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich—written after the composer was officially censured in Pravda articles—with "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour," a gripping collaboration for six actors and orchestra by playwright Tom Stoppard and conductor-composer André Previn that movingly depicts the plight of political dissidents in Soviet-era mental hospital-prisons, with the orchestra as part of the action.

Regional Orchestras in the Spotlight Barbara Jepson 2011

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Among the foreign works removed from the public domain were symphonies by Russian composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, writings by J.R.R. Tolkien and George Orwell, and paintings by Pablo Picasso.

Foreign Copyrights Upheld Brent Kendall 2012