The Marquette Symphony Orchestra will present its season finale, “Festive Folk,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at the Kaufman Auditorium. This event will blend classical music with the spirited ...

His Fourth Symphony fared no better as far as musical officialdom went and it was withdrawn before its first performance. With the Fifth Symphony (1937) Shostakovich was allowed in from the cold, as ...

Dmitri Shostakovich ... in Boston Symphony Orchestra rehearsals Wednesday afternoon and most of Thursday. Some of their works will be performed in the BSO concerts Friday at 2.15 p.m. and Saturday ...

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

As seasoned collectors will know, attitudes to the Shostakovich symphonies have tended to polarize ... intermittently compelling but no match for previous all-American recordings by Ormandy (Sony, ...