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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal element in his approach. . . . Everything is bad music that is not directed toward the emotion of the listener. Music must be an inspiration for the people; the mission of the Soviet composer must be to educate the good taste of the people." Both the Shostakovich children, daughter Galya, 11, and son Maxim, 9, are taking piano lessons. His short, plump, blonde wife Nina, who helps answer questions for her husband, said: "Dmitri doesn't think either of them has shown any particular talent, but Maxim's teacher says he is already showing signs of becoming a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prague Recaptured | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Coolly Galya walked out of the house, explaining to the sentry that she was going for a doctor. At the curb, fellow guerrillas were waiting in a car. Today Galya is a Hero of the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Servant Problem | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Frau Kube's twelve swine was a brown-haired, blue-eyed girl named Galya Mazanik. In the chamber where Commissioner Kube slept alone, innocent-looking Galya planted a mine one September evening in 1943. It was a dud. Back she went, this time tossed in a hand grenade. It worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Servant Problem | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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