Dmitri Shostakovich in Moscow - December, 1968

from Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman, page 157:

Day after day I have been sitting at the composer’s congress, and in the evenings listening to premières of the outstanding new musical compositions which are part of the festival. But somehow these festivals do not always turn out to be very festive for me.
cite as

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. 157. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431431862578 accessed: 12 October, 2024

location of experience: Moscow

Listeners

Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer, Pianist
1906-1975

Experience Information

Date/Time December, 1968
Medium live
Listening Environment indoors, in public

Notes

Letter from Dmitri Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 19 December 1968, Moscow.


Originally submitted by verafonte on Tue, 12 May 2015 12:57:42 +0100
Approved on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:26:09 +0000