So that gives us a basis for calling Shostakovich “better.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » What means this “English”?:] Reference

He had played the Shostakovich as his senior thesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [anne-jumps Diary Entry] Reference

And I said, oh, Miaskovsky and Metner and Shostakovich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Piano Pathways: Daniel Pollack, 50 Years Later] Reference

Performing works by Glinka, Shostakovich and Stravinsky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classical music concerts this fall] Reference

And Shostakovich is one of Bernard Haitink's specialties.    From Wordnik.com.  [City By City, A Night At The Symphony] Reference

All the while, Shostakovich music sets the mood perfectly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Loerzel: Building a New 'Dracula'] Reference

Ms. ALSOP: I think that is the big question about Shostakovich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations] Reference

SIMON: But speaking of the Shostakovich most be people know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations] Reference

But anyhow, Shostakovich was alerted who was the chairman and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Piano Pathways: Daniel Pollack, 50 Years Later] Reference

They sounded like tubas in a Shostakovich opera, comedically tragic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bonesetter's Daughter]

A Handel ( "Alcina") and a Shostakovich ( "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk").    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Off] Reference

I've never heard a more heartfelt ovation for a Shostakovich symphony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now That It's Official] Reference

The Soviets used their great artists, like Prokofiev and Shostakovich.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Symphony In the Making] Reference

In this music, Shostakovich pushed and stretched Bach's sturdy formulas.    From Wordnik.com.  [On CD: Melnikov's Shostakovich] Reference

Six short years later in 1948, Shostakovich was again officially denounced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference

HUIZENGA: The year after Stalin's crushing editorial, Shostakovich wrote his Fifth Symphony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference

She recently conducted an all-Shostakovich program at the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations] Reference

In 1988, he presented his first ballet -- a one-off work to Shostakovich called "La Sylphide-88.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ABT's Alexei the Mild?] Reference

After Stalin died in 1953, Shostakovich breathed a little easier but his nerves were still on edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference

Ms. ALSOP: Well, again, with Shostakovich it's probably a combination of many, many, many elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations] Reference

He employed this approach with Brahms in Rotterdam and Prokofiev and Shostakovich in St. Petersburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [His More Focused Future] Reference

Whether it was in response to Mozart or Brahms, Beethoven or Shostakovich, the listening was palpable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Older Than Its Own Home, The I.P.O. Marks a Birthday] Reference

But he did go and played Shostakovich, which was received in a "cosmic silence" by his German audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics] Reference

This is the first piece Shostakovich writes after he's been really pretty much blacklisted as a composer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations] Reference

Ms. LAUREL FAY (Author of Shostakovich: A Life): Stalin happened to go to see one of these and was not pleased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference

The concert includes works by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Dohnányi, followed by some time to mix and mingle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nightlife Agenda] Reference

Theo composes about two bad bars of Shostakovich a year, sometimes segueing accidentally into "Mack the Knife.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Smashing Actors in Tiny Spaces Sparkle in Season's Best Comedy] Reference

It is the May 4 program that will include the two world premieres, along with music by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pursuing 'an Ongoing Experiment'] Reference

(Soundbite of orchestral music) HUIZENGA: Before long, Soviet papers covered Shostakovich like a Hollywood celebrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference

So I think it has further, kind of canonized, if you will, this incredible world of Shostakovich in these 15 quartets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decade In Classical Recordings] Reference

(Soundbite of orchestra "Symphony No. 5 in D Minor") HUIZENGA: And here's where the Shostakovich code-breakers come in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference

HUIZENGA: The debates over Shostakovich, the man, may one day lose steam, but his music at this point seems unstoppable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference

Ms. ALSOP: For me Shostakovich, I think, first and foremost is about a depth of emotion that an artist is not afraid to plunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations] Reference

And it also shows a side of Shostakovich that we rarely talk about, which a lighter side and a side that was filled with overt humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations] Reference

Today, Shostakovich is known as one of the most important composers of the 20th century, apart from the ideology under which he lived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations] Reference

(Soundbite of music, "Fifth Symphony" by Shostakovich) (Soundbite of song, "Take Five") NORRIS: Mr. Brubeck, may I ask about your hands?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Brubeck: An Unlikely Hit, 50 Years Strong] Reference

Lost to posterity is a recording of an arrangement played by Shostakovich and a gifted composer friend, Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996).    From Wordnik.com.  [From Despair to Delight] Reference