• Famous Composers

    Leningrad Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra

    Issue #1444 (6) Friday, January 30, 2009 Culture Siege memories By Galina Stolyarova Staff Writer Alexander Belenky / The St. Petersburg Times http://oqulhgto.livejournal.com/524.html source of picture People light candles in St. Petersburg this week to mark 65 years since the end of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II. If a member of Leningrad’s Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra didn’t show up at a rehearsal during the first months of 1942, fellow musicians would begin to feel a familiar nauseousness. They knew that nobody would pick up the phone when they rang the absentee — and that a rescue brigade sent to their home would find the musician dead. With winter…