The Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s May Masterworks concert is a portrait of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) that not only displays the versatility of both composer and performers, but ...

The times they are a-changin'. For nearly seventy years, Bob Dylan has been making music, and throughout his entire career, he's been a man of few words. He rarely gives interviews, earning himself a ...

You have to like an album that juxtaposes Shostakovich’s bleak and desolate Symphony No. 11 with his charmingly corny arrangement of “Tea for Two.” The liner notes spell out the underlying thinking ...