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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...
Lady of Mzensk. One mystery Biographer Seroff's book goes a long way toward solving is the maze of Slavic ideological brainwork that lay behind the sensational blacklisting of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the District of Mzensk in 1936. The close connection in the Soviet mind between musical and political technique will probably never be completely fathomed by non-Russians. But looked at by Russians, the downfall of Lady Macbeth had a certain logic about...
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