Quote of the day
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
Dmitri Shostakovich

Born: September 25, 1906
Died: August 9, 1975 (aged 68)
Bio: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet composer and pianist, and a prominent figure of 20th-century music.