We should give all possible support to the idea of music-making at home. Let music enter the homes of Soviet people, not only by radio and television, or on records and tape-recordings: let it be heard in its original form, as a quartet or trio, as a piano version of an opera, ballet or symphony, as a song or romance sung at a friendly get-together. As I recall my childhood now, I am beginning to understand the importance for me of those musical gatherings that used to take place in our flat. Those evenings were my first school.