Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony Mendelssohn found inspiration for his Symphony No. 3 in the ruins of Edinburgh’s Holyrood Chapel. Tonight at 7 at Blossom, the Cleveland Orchestra plays the piece ...

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The Thirteenth Symphony was among many of Shostakovich’s works that faced official criticism – another was his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which led to a campaign against the composer in the pages ...