Isaak Glikman in Russia - the 1940's
from Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman, pages xxxvii:
I was consumed with impatience to find some way to get to Kuybïshev to hear for myself the symphony, which we knew was due to receive its first performance there on 5 March. But in wartime there was not the smallest hope of realizing the dream. However, before long it became known that the première was to be broadcast over all radio stations in the Sovietic Union, which meant that we would be able to listen to it in Tashkent. / The director of the Conservatoire, Pavel Serebryakov, had managed to get hold of a radio from somewhere, so that evening a small group of us professors … more >>
Dmitri Shostakovich / Isaac Glikman, Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman (Queen Square, London, 2001), p. xxxvii. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431381613859 accessed: 7 December, 2024
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Date/Time | the 1940's |
Medium | broadcast |
Listening Environment | indoors, in public |