Dmitri Shostakovich in Armenia - July, 1964

from Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman, page 116:

All the cottages here have a tape-recorder, and every day I listen two or three times to Songs of Kursk. Each time I hear them I am overwhelmed by their matchless beauty.
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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. 116. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431383385274 accessed: 10 December, 2024

location of experience: Armenia

Listeners

Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer, Pianist
1906-1975

Listening to

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Songs of Kursk
written by Sviridov

Experience Information

Date/Time July, 1964
Medium playback
Listening Environment in private, indoors

Notes

Letter from Dmitri Shostakovich to Isaac Glikman, 16 July, 1964, Dilizhan


Originally submitted by verafonte on Mon, 11 May 2015 23:29:45 +0100
Approved on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:04:07 +0000