Category: String Quartet

• Muddle Instead of Music

  November 25, 2012

  Chamber music, Opera, Orchestral, Song, String Quartet, Symphony, Vocal

  On 28th of January 1936 Pravda published a ‘review’ of Shostakovich’s opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. The opera had been completed two years earlier and had received a number of successful, critically acclaimed, productions. Two days prior to the publication of the infamous Pravda attack, Stalin had attended a performance of the work…