On Viktor Ullmann’s music criticism from Terezin.
After the end of history, listening to Shostakovich’s art of witness.
The New York Times
Mstislav Rostropovich looks back on Soviet musical life, and the ghosts who linger.
The Boston Globe
A composer for whom art after Auschwitz was not only possible. It was the only antidote to life after Auschwitz.
The Boston Globe
In a rare interview, the conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi recalls his father’s war against Adolf Hitler.
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A sculpture’s long journey to its present home.
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A meeting with Tikhon Khrennikov, the official who attacked Shostakovich and Prokofiev — and outlived the Soviet Union.