Shostakovich on Cuts to the Fourth Symphony: “Let Them Eat it All!”

DSCH Journal, January 2020 Letters to the Editor: As a first violinist in the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra from 1965 to 1973, Victor Yampolsky had the opportunity to see Dmitri Shostakovich when the orchestra, under conductor Kirill Kondrashin, was rehearsing a Shostakovich symphony or concerto. “He was frequently present at rehearsals,” says Mr. Yampolsky, who has […]