Leningrad

The 84-year-old survived the Siege of Leningrad as a very young child with her four siblings and mother.

As a boy growing up in Leningrad, Mark Shterenberg developed a fascination with the way things worked — the challenge of taking them apart, the responsibility of putting them back together.

By World War II, even as scientists were manufacturing gallons of phages to combat cholera, dysentery, and gangrene in Stalingrad and Leningrad, much the West had given up on phages.

He was born Feb. 9, 1985, in Leningrad and was a graduate of the distinguished Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, whose notable male alumni also include Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev.

From the moment of its triumphant 1937 premiere in Leningrad, the heroic symphony has been laden with political baggage that is not likely to be unnoticed on the Children’s Symphony tour.