05 Oct 2006

Shostakovich Is Scaled Down After Protests From Church

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/arts/music/05prie.html

Shostakovich.pngBy SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY [NY Times, 5 October 2006]

MOSCOW, Oct. 4 — Dmitri Shostakovich, who died in 1975, would have been 100 this year, and his centenary is being observed in Russia by a flood of concerts, ballets, operas and events.