but with his Symphony No 13, Shostakovich again met with official criticism, this time from the Communist Party chairman Nikita Khruschev, who complained that the text of the choral part referring to ...

Dmitri Shostakovich and four other outstanding Russian composers will visit the University Saturday afternoon as part of a month-long tour of the United States, under the cultural exchange program ...

Laid out in four connected movements, the Eleventh, unusually for Shostakovich, draws upon several revolutionary songs and ...