Denis Matthews in Kabul Airport
from In Pursuit of Music, page 162:
But arriving in Kabul reminded me of the old film of Lost Horizon – a Shangri-La set in a peaceful plateau surrounded by forbidding mountains and approached through the narrowest of ravines. Its modern airport was a complete surprise, presumably another prestige gift from the Russians, judging from the strains of Tchaikowsky’s violin concerto that poured forth incessantly from the loud-speakers, at a constantly fluctuating pitch. (Poor David Oistrakh, I thought!)
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Denis Matthews, In Pursuit of Music (London, 1966), p. 162. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1477690219247 accessed: 14 October, 2024
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Violin Concerto
written by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky |
performed by David Oistrakh |
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Medium | playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Fri, 28 Oct 2016 22:30:19 +0100
Approved on Wed, 17 May 2017 08:36:36 +0100