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...learned and Miss Grayson's heart somewhere between her throat and the palm of his hand. He is promptly forgiven by the court-martial and goes off to war, while Songstress Grayson (plus an orchestra and some 390 male choristers) gives tongue to United Nations, by Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich...
Though he is the most talked about of all contemporary composers, the real Dmitri Shostakovich has long been as mysterious as a Kremlin state secret. Now the secret...
Assiduously pumped by a Russian-born pianist and writer, Victor Ilyich Seroff, Aunt Nadejda tells all. The result, Shostakovich's first full-length biography (Dmitri Shostakovich by Victor Ilyich Seroff; Knopf; $3), shows its subject to be not only a bespectacled firewarden and heroic musical panegyrist of embattled Russia, but an engaging human being who might have stepped out of the pages of a Chekhov family drama...
...When Dmitri Shostakovich finally got married, it was almost over solicitous Sonya's dead body. But Dmitri nevertheless grew to be a mildly self-assertive scholarly-looking young man, who could play the piano as well as anybody in Russia, and whose enormous talents as a symphonic composer were soon to set the world by the ears...
Fortunately, Dmitri Shostakovich had too much sense to take his ideological thwacking too seriously. He went on composing music in the style of Dmitri Shostakovich. Within two years the Russians decided it fitted the Party line...