Rehearsal for the Graduation Concert. Tsybin is rehearsing Yasin's Magdal, music of quite remarkable vacuity. To quote Tcherepnin, it is a well-orchestrated zero. I am rehearsing Shcherbakov's Procession, which sounds noisy and authoritative and, after Yasin's music, rich in content. In the end, no obstacles were placed in the way of my Concerto being included in the programme. Tcherepnin says he will conduct all accompaniments, so the only work I am responsible for is Shcherbakov's Procession, which could be conducted with one foot if necessary. This is not much to show for a graduating member of the conductors' class, a point which I do not hesitate to make to him.