"They were socialist label, red banner of labor, order of the October Revolution," "People's Artist of the USSR" "Stalin prizes... 5, International Peace Prize" "Gray trash, meaningless." "Look, the ravens are here even claiming our corpses." "Oh, something they feel!" "Their state composer is dead." "I am dead." "How else should I be smiling?" "TESTIMONY" "Those hands..." "Policemen' hands." "what tortures of those eyes seen stand brest on with gongs from your heroic exploits in unforgettable..." "What year was it?" "verging what wretched Baltic state" ""Et tu Brute" ("Even you, Brutus?"-"Julius Cezar")" "Best job forward" "Girl on the left-traveler from the West upmarket freedom fighter" "Need you like a hole in the back of the neck" "Citizen artist." "After what my country has done to me" "Wow... what does it matter?" "Only composer?" "what use to the world is he?" "Time to be gone, goodbye widow daughter... son.." "Goodbye friends!" "Whose music is that?" "Foul!" "That's me." "8 th Symphony." "The third movement." "Yeah, noises in the head" "What use to the living is that?" "Shostakovich!" "I'm sorry professor Glazunov.." "I ran" "I'm sorry" "So early?" "No trams." ".." "What did Glazunov know about trams?" "His mother wrapped him in a coat .." "in every morning" "See, my boy doesn't catch cold" ""I must wake up earlier", I said" "If there were more trams.." "Do you think your father..." "My father did not abuse his access to state supplies" "I was not a go-between we did nothing we could be shot for." "The worry was shortening my life, I said." "I dreaded the tram stop" "If at last the tram did come the people behind me always shoved me aside." "The tram went with them not me." "I was not made for fighting like that" "Damn thing!" "Krastinka!" ""I" box." ""I" box." "It begins with "K"." ""I" from "Insignificant"." "See you don't end like that!" "Where's this?" "Kremlin wall?" "Doubt it." "Nowhere near him, that's for sure." "... with Khrushchev and Stanislavski and Chekhov and Tzar Joseph's wretched wife" "The awkward dead." "Once there was a Tsar of Moscow:" "Joseph." "Joseph the terrible." "Father of all the Russias." "Great gardener who dug the revolution's grave." "Shoeshine boy from the Caucasus, lover of children Pox bids on his face and neck little fat hands one smaller than the other and the boots that gave him such a kick to wear." "oh, he brooded and in his brooding our wretched century's broke its back." "Vania, it's the music that matters, not me!" "They love the score, not me!" "They won't you get away with that!" "Why don't start a new tradition, the composer disappears?" "The public applauds the composer!" "Your first victory!" "Only a boy, damn it!" "With this symphony.." "makes him even more of a politician" "To Shostakovich!" "First composer of the revolution!" "Thank you, Mikhail" "Difficult?" "Red Army Commander?" "...." "I'm interested in Sadler" "Rubicund all right?" "Crossing the Kronstadt rebellion I lost my best friend, you know" "Son of one of the leaders at Kronstadt" "Wasn't necessary." "Stay friends with him" "He is close to the center and his Leningrad as you are" "As district secretary ..." "Take care, it comes "The battleship Potemkin"" ".." ".. and you can like symphonies like that?" "Madama Lupinskaya, how irresistible you look this evening!" "More than one can say for you" "They do as I do .." "What did Mikhail mean?" "Composer of the revolution-difficult?" "Music and revolution go together?" "you already orchestrate better than.." "With respect, you're wrong comrade Meyerhold." "I don't orchestrate, I hear." "Yes?" "Prokofiev orchestrates from a piano score." "I write for the orchestra." "I didn't like all of symphony but..." "They were other pieces premiere tonight" "Both quite eclipsed." "Not easy for them." "Now you are wrong." "You see, they are not significant" "What a night of music for my theatre you have to be in Moscow, of course" "Petersburg people !" "You can't play piano in the cinema forever," "You have a mother and two sisters, you must earn!" "I have to stage King Lear among other plays, of course" "King Lear is fabulous God ..." ""The storm"..." "What a play!" "That Tsar of Moscow..." "oh he hated Petersburg!" "Window on the world." "One day he came to close the window." "Lock it out." "(Kirov death)" "In a party HQ corridor mysteriously unguarded at the time." "Which new powers are already drafted decreed and dated on his desk in Moscow." "It was freezing medals" "The thing has been my honeymoon here" "Did mrs Igor like it?" "I didn't bring her along here and let he seem to break" "Your wife looks like Stalin" "Yes, I think her beard is a bit longer." "Has got a better way too" "Vania" "Someone saw your opera last night." "Dissonant, grinding, screaming, gnashing crashing and screeching" "You're missing the train!" "Dimitri!" "Negative?" "For the composer this could end very badly" "The most radical experiment in human history and it did succeed where all the rest have failed the revolutions set all the creativity free" "Now he tells me to stomp on my own creativity!" "Should have looked around you ." "New people were mean to power" "You know the man, you talk to him" "Understand, Dimitri" "You're being licked into shape" "The great soviet composer oh yes, the man has judgments ." "You had this new piece in rehearsal, ever symphonies" "Some of the players are being difficult" "News gets back" "Orchestral players of Smaug They always give the work a hard time" "These players are frightened" "This new sound of yours... is violent, black" "noises that crash" "It is to negative" "It is what it is." "Such music speaks of conflict" "The revolution has resolved all comfort" "Life is merry, our leader tells us so." "Inspired with joy" "A symphony must rejoice." "I write what I hear from within myself which comes from who I am in this world in which I am or else I have no meaning." "This world you're in..." "You're in Russia" "Stalin is helping Hitler to destroy the communists in Germany why?" "We could help Hitler it is obscene!" "When Hitler has sworn to obliterate this from the earth" "Stalin might help him to do that, too" "We have a planning meeting:" "the defense of Leningrad" "We must have anti-aircraft rockets" "He doesn't believe in rockets" "Because I do ..." "He needs me to be wrong" "I have talents, he has none ." "So I pretend" "Guns, bla bla bla the need for so many guns bla bla bla" "Young Igor chips in my second-in-command is briefed" ""With respects comrade secretary general"" ""with respects the comrade marshal"" "lacks visions" "He hasn't foreseen the possibility of air attack world perfect" "really" "Is he the great helmsman, genius word to be used, don't leave him" "Lacks vision, does he?" "That glint in his eye.." "Adolf rises rockets" "Suppose documents will discover originating in Berlin implicating me in conspiracy with the Nazi High Command" "So easy" "The pretext Stalin needs to have me gone" "Cities cronies in the saddle for ................ cavalry T heads and think we can gallop to the Brandenburg Gate" "Well, Russia would be safer with their horses in command" "no rockets then no marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, no Red Army." "Leningrad naked the bombardment from the sky" "When that happens thanks Stalin, remember me." "My poor troubles matter very little." "You matter very much." ".. they must eat dumb soldiers can only obey" "You have to be true." "That's your contract for the living" "You are the one voice by which the truth may still be spoken and which the people will know for true." "You could stay alive that somehow." "Get back in the saddle, now." "Use this crisis to your own end." "No one would claim that my early music has been perfect." "That new piece of yours it could be." "But draw discreetly." "The gesture would be favorably observed then start a new symphony" "One that wings through darkness into light" "A program for the party" "I feel no light in my heart" "You're a composer that's for you to resolve." "But be sure that energy speak to the people" "Not only to yourself." "See?" "Finland." "We could meet there for our forward basis." "if should anyone attack us." "Finland is our friend." "We have a special relationship." "And if she denies his bases will attack her." "That's what special relationship means." "Night is coming" "Today we condemn and murder others." "Tomorrow we ourselves are condemned and murdered." "Once I believed we Russians do, we believe" "and believe simple things." "After the revolution" "Russian soldiers won't kill russian children anymore, we said." "And apples will be for all alike." "Mama's at work." "they're gave is loosely to the journalists using local coffee I suppose who came to us and landed like a chicken in the soup" "Our brave hero.." "guessed the enemie's intentions , a good bound he was free.." "ride across the valleys...the rivers.." "going on top, this eagle..." "At breakday he guessed the enemy's intentions." "With a good bound... he was free flying cross all the time , cross all these valleys rivers, fields..." "Already guessed the enemy intentions with good bound ..." "Of course this is only a rough cut but you'll see the problem" "Well ?" "You don't see ?" ""Now great heroe already guessed the enemy's intention and with a good bound it was free"" "It's a quote!" "A tribute!" "Something our comrade leader will later write it himself!" "in his short history he see a Caspian campaign" "I don't remember the exact battle and" "The problem is..." "Sorry" ""Cobar hero of the Caucasus"" "This implies that our comrade leader's revolutionary manner had its roots in a boy's own adventure story" "How could the writer be so indempt?" "but he changed the book" "Director's problem" "You'll have to change the music." "Composer's problem." "Our leader is like God." "We do not know his face" "He phones people yes all ours" "If he would only write one could show a letter" "Such-and-such the Mountain Eagle said to me:" "Thus was his word to me" "At last a phone call." "It leaves no evidence." "At least you had a phone call." "Out when it came ... a whole week after" "Our comrade leader doesn't ring a second time" "With Gankoff , he met him, He met him?" "Private viewing in the Kremlin to Gankoff latest masterpiece" "Who's the director?" "Let's have him over, join the viewing party" "Start running the film" "Comrade leader at the back" "To Gankof two rows down in the front death looked around" "Every suffer from the leader, every move to Gankof, death looked around ... doesn't hear a message brought in at the black" "All that Gankof hears is:" ""what shit is this?"" "and falls flat on the floor and faints." "Well you would, wouldn't?" "Carrying him out sweap down the floor, clean his pants" "They 've got room for that." ""hmm" says the leader I' m not inviting film directors anymore"" "They get carried away." "Are we writing tonight ?" "I am a professional of the Petersburg school" "Mikhail and other officers asked to report for questioning" "Wives and the mistresses helped with inquiries too " "Used to be a joke about Mikhail." "At his funeral there were so many widows each thinking she's the only one." "well well and a special education for the children of such men" "Look at him :" "nose without a man" "Name?" "..." "From his wife." "Meyerhold, too, helped with the inquieries." "Note the overnight bag we all kept one packed ready warm underwear, toothbrush, copier Pushkin might be gone sometime." "Never got around to his King Lear" "His wife up there, a large actress, selfish on stage right now they're cutting out her eyes with knives" "Someone must hear, you know us Russians no smoke without fire not the long since I too would have said" "She must have done something." "Humanists from the West" "Utopia 1937" "Not fascism of course." "Yes, at least it's not fascism." "The car about to help the revolution but all today must be some hurry to have them gone." "They'll rev the engines" "Shooting must not be heard in the street." "he comes here every night this opera is plain" "He never miss it" "The blood-soaked Tsar who takes upon himself deeds of horror to make our Russia strong" "Impossible!" "such things cannot be happening stone crushers mashed the flesh and bone" "the bloody help flushed down the city drains purging mistake" "Well ?" "AG has been with the Dida" "I'm bound to say I never met a fair amount more candid, more honest!" "How could anyone possibly be afraid of him?" "I don't understand!" "Unless they were suffering from guilt" "Absolutely !" "I did try to understand these people from the West." "they seemed to crave an angry parent for others of course" "Must be their education system" "Andre you'll quit the blind!" "I end in a blaze of joy" "D major" "Key of joy" "Of light." "The symphony must rejoice." "Our leader says so." "To give us a good life and gain his aproval." "A, A flat," "B natural" "There's a story about B natural in the older days" "The choirs and churches could never sing it in tune." "sometimes they needed it flatter so they made it two notes they called the flat one B and the sharp one" "C, D" "D sharp which also has another name" "So it is!" "Daddy is laughing!" "The most powerful man that has ever been" "And we do not know him!" "What if he all along if he be right confess all to us all?" "How does one talk with such a man ?" "What language does he use?" "They say that even with his mother... son" "Your bastard, yes!" "You should have been a priest!" "You wreched whore!" "Get the wrong books again." "Don't they realize the German fascists have always been our friends?" "They have a copy of that jew, Karl Marx" "Comrade Hitler our eternal ally" "They could weep Weep!" "Under the blanket No tears in paradise." "Did I tell you that Eisenstein he's staging well connect up the tiles and you in the cast cover learn turns" "Survival Probably after him to survive" "No scream" "No protest they come for as we go" "we sheeps of Russia" "Why does he not send for me?" "He must , He will" "How can I turn not come?" "In nature life is cheap" "To save the earth he knows and only he what must be done." "My sense of my own work as a living person is is that a myth ?" "Must be ready?" "Pen, paper, toothbrush by the door must be ready" "And when they start on me what is it really like?" "then well, ice cream ?" "Yes yes!" "To scream is to protest" "Dignity is civility." "Damn you damn you who make us think about something" "Dad?" "Where did the music come from?" "My head" "My head is a big round world Little demons in it open little doors and poke their faces out" "There's a particularly naughty little demon" "Nobody takes any notice" "We think he's friendly but he gets bigger." "Bigger and bigger." "Before you know is trampling everybody down" "Is that the story?" "That is the story!" "How is it called?" "Simphony number seven" "But its real name" "No name" "Did someone kill him in the end?" "Perhaps" "Have you been in the West?" "They do strange things in the West" "..Stover's today Piano finals" "Lizst sonata" ".." "Opus 111." "I'll never get away in time." "Meeting ?" "You must be joking" ".." "You have to get these little creature to play faster" "HITLER HAS BROKEN TREATY WAR" "Out!" "Damn!" "Where are going ?" "To the cellars ." ".." "Copy of "my Kampf" came true" "all helmsman of genius how can he?" "Hitler is my friend he is not brother who signed an agreement to share Europe" "why has Leningrad no anti-air craft rockets?" "Who has left Leningrad naked to the air ?" "Who is to blame?" "We shall be our fraternal Ally now" "Who will help us conquer Europe now?" "A volunteer They ought to refuse me" "Your ..." "People are eating rats to stay alive ... higher duty" "fiddling we have a conservatory roof is on high requires you on a broader front" "Behalf of minds of our fraternal allies especially America" "You're living safe to finish that new symphony" "You're exterminating Giants The enemies of life yeah well now it's enemy of Leningrad and .. my own kid" "yes look at him!" "The top musician in the city and there one German shell would make ... that was city commander" "Makes good news oh, true!" "That helps" "Who's directing it?" "Eisenstein copious map you do anything to maybe look ridiculous" ".. you glorifying Ivan the terrible now call it doesn't show their little first work" "Out from the hell of Leningrad before the belching miles of nazi dance" "Across the frozen wastes born .." "south across the peaks of Georgia a secret weapon comes mightier than steel" "Maharaj rendezvous in the desert Sutherland by motorcycle" "truck, Cairo" "Gibraltar" "What is this secret?" "Hands, designs, a formula?" "Brainchild of some russian Einstein" "None of these !" "These experts are the generalissimo-s of the symphony" "Maestro Toscanini and..." "A weapon forged in the inferno of conflict with the Soviet ancestral foe the Hun." "There's a new new symfonic masterwork born with a "A'" "The Leningrad symphony with its graphic depiction of a Nazi hordes comes music from the flames" "To set America aflame in the cause of Liberty" "Our russian Einstein is a Dervis private little man but a hero" "Seen here in a rare footage." "shoulder to shoulder with the citizens of Leningrad fighting to save their ancient city from the flames." "Oh Leningrad!" "Leningrad!" "900 days." "the Siege 900 days we ate human flesh to survive" "to survive... we ate the Jews first because they did not fight" "War is easy we were told" "and when we won all this at the mercy of our Savior again" "Oh Leningrad, my Leningrad" "Nothing changes." "Only the tyrants learn from history." "All who fight for us now in the West and live to come home true heroes of our land" "but what they have learned outside shall vanish in mass graves." "Our tzar will see to that." "And our deeper war continue." "Symphonies, tombstones of the siege" "He'll be wanting an eighth Symphony next then a ninth." "A monumental Beethoven ode to..." "EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE OF SOVIET MUSICIANS MOSCOW-JANUARY 1948" "So commander Zdanov is a music critic now?" "I heard comrade Prokofief will stand up" "Comrade musicians permit me a few opening remarks on the role of the creative artist in the society" "in the West the artist is a mere ornament victim to market forces." "He can be made or broken by the votes of a narrow intellectual elite" "Whether he live or starve depends on how fashionable he is" "THis so-called freedom is a struggle to survive" "We.." "we value our artists." "We recognize the gifts he brings as any science, any technology, poetry, art, music are vital to our humanity." "Our institutions therefore accord the artists proper status in our society" "He enjoys his rightful place but with that status comes responsibility." "We are here today to examine that responsibility." "In the West, yes, the artist is free to dabble in abstractions in sentimental nihilism in meaningless.. itself" "We, the people demand that you touch us, that you reach into us that your creations be of meaning to us" "In a word that you speak!" "Have we, in our Soviet music the beginnings of a failure?" "Trouble with Zdanov, right?" "Invidious on some names and I would not!" "Khatchaturyan looks unhappy" "But for certain reasons or disappointments in the field of opera and symphony and opera of Comrade Buratelli" "certain choral and orchestral pieces from comrade Prokofiev" "Gargolovsky the shadows at every platform from Shostakovich" "But it may argue?" "Why should I, a Prokofiev respect the opinions of a tractor driver from Tashkent?" "Why should a smelter from Smolensk dictates my harmonies to me?" "A Shostakovich ?" "Name two or three symphonic stars whom the West has taken to its ruting odd while even here at home thanks to the influence of a Leningrad clique of musicologist so-called others among us who labor to uphold more tuneful values" "are treated with contempt." "Their works not performed their names not even heard ." "My comrades, I am no musician well as I heard it said" "Andrey Aleksandrovich no musician but he knows 600 folk songs what a thing to say" "I only know 300!" "Letters !" "These are letters from workers!" "From factories and collectives everywhere!" "These can hear when a composer violates the natural laws!" "these can tell gratuitous dissonance, ugly clapping, noises that creek and crush for the symptoms that they are:" "of a concept of life too negative" "As for example in some recent work from comrade Shostakovich who appears to have lost again the number nine" "that mighty consumating number with all its resonance of the great Beethoven at a time of epic liberation by our Savior Generalissimo Stalin" "sole architect of our victory" "What does our last comrades deliver ?" "Carnival squeaks!" "Hooligan squawkings!" "A satanic satire perhaps to include in its main theme a yankee sergeant whistling" "Well, what can our comrade be telling us?" "I , Sostakovich personally deflate the myth of number 9" "I Dmitri Dmitrievich private individual" "I..." "I have some personal whim" "I will assert" "Comrades" "Comrades Zhdanov has done well" "sounded may I say a note of warning" "All my career rather since and earlier most salutary warning" "I have sought my meaning" "I have sought to speak to the living do I begin to fail ?" "do I fall too much beneath my own private shadow and fail to speak openly and plainly to the living and with objectivity?" "then yes I failed" "I failed by the standards of the highest art which are the only standards and I am grateful to you all" "that you rebuke me, yes!" "To be sure!" "It is also right and proper." "at the Conservatoire that my son also denounces me" "to be sure to reach the people" "That is the question but how is it done?" "I expect to receive instruction from you" "I will study it with deep interest" "What are they afraid I'll do" "A harmony too problematic for the people" "We... we value our artist." "We recognize the gift he brings." "As any science any technology, poetry, music are vital to our humanity" "our institutions therefore accord the artist proper status in our society he enjoys his rightful place" "Promise them yes, promise them a project , massive" "Three symphonies" "A revolutionary trilogy" "The people" "Lenin" "Stalin" "Defect?" "Exile is the worst death." "Pushkin, he too." ""With my talents and my luck" he said" ""to be born in Russia, stupid"" "No one mentioned Chekhov." "The true craftsman. "I put my hand" he said "to anything"" ""except denounciations"" "I wish mama didn't have to work so far away" "She does." "A friend requires it." "Her lover." "keep them off my back a year or so" "By time I have my contract with the living" "I must live to honor that" "What are you?" "By what we billions obey?" "hatred of ourselves guilt of the Living guilty that we sang" "Gift has separated me gift has elevated me so I punish my gift to bring myself down equal" "Strength through joy." "daddy , daddy isThomas darling" "He's just coming" "yes?" "America" "I'm sorry?" "New York" "Comrade Shostakovich" "Yes" "The cultural and scientific Congress on world peace" "Next month we must encourage peace-loving peoples" "Of course." "the Pentagon's new North Atlantic Treaty you understand is causing concern" "you will be the star of our Soviet delegation" "current general secretary I'm amazed that you regard me as worthy" "You are a brightest and most talented no false modesty" "all the same I ..." "It will..." "America I..." "People will ask me how work of Prokofiev and Khachaturian and myself..." "The people will ask me how can I just represent the country where my works are bound" "In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics no work is bad and there are contexts in which performance it is unwise" "where that concerns you we should perhaps look into that" "I'm sick and tired... yes I hear you dislike fly" "We'll send you a doctor." "Good night" "so much" "you are a brightest and most talented no false modesty" "No work is bad in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics there are contexts in which performance is unwise" "later when you say about the" "No political questions we are artists" "but are we really individuals" "Your program" "This evening 7:45 grand banquet of welcome Waldorf Astoria Hotel" "Friday 10:30 a.m. press conference" "11:45 visit to the ambassador's residence" "...Stalin butcher" "Sunday Madison Square Gardens 8 p.m." "Peace rally" "You will play a piano version of the schedule from your Symphony number 5" "When do we leave for New Jersey ?" "New York is horrible, is everything Gorky says" "City of the yellow death" "New Jersey is canceled" "Yale is also canceled from the university authorities" "Everything for me would serve no educational purpose" "Stravinsky your fellow composer" "He's behind all this" "he has all the American Universities sewn up" "bitches academics" "Stravinsky is wrong." "He refuses to sign a telegram ... us" "Mc Witch, your client thank you" "All I wish from the comrade Sostakovich is an answer does he or does he not accept the criticism voiced against him by the party at last year's special comments" "I repeat" "the criticism of the party was most accurate" "Was it just?" "I endeavoured to respect it in practice and what in practice does that mean my music must answer that" "What music you have written since?" "A film score for the younger" ""A Cantata on a forestation "" "Are you saying that these are your real music now?" "Did you repudiate those symphonies you wrote before?" "But the 5th?" "I want to claim that his ..." "My earlier music has been..." "You repudiate it?" "Why are you so interested in me?" "I'm one among so many and I'm not the only soviet composer ... that'll you know that" "Comrade Shostakovich we still await your answer!" "The 8th symphony for instance denounced in Moscow as the work of a frightened man." "Are you frightened?" "My music is not to be discussed in personal terms" "Oh God, Shostakovich!" "Yours is very personal" "My personality is irrelevant" "Music must transcend mere personality" "That is the struggle of every true artist" "Well' let's discuss the music of others, Prokofiev and Khachaturian also criticize our comrades" "Surely you have an attitude to error." "Error is error to be repudiated and purged" "Is the error of a comrade colleague such as Khachaturian" "No concern to you Dimitri Dimitrievici?" "Answer, please!" "It says here" "Mister Shostakovici do you or do you not denounce as error" "the work of your fellow musician Stravinsky?" "Where we have relapsed into formalism we can't .." "What is formalism ?" "Form for form's sake." "Serve it from experience." "You asked about other composers." "Stravinsky all I can say is I agree" "He has betrayed his land, he has severed himself from his own people" "Result his music is morally barren intellectual at least the colleagues you mentioned seek to serve people." "Prokofiev Hachaturian" "They as I must heed the directive of the Central Committee if we are not to lapse into form for forms sake" "I denounce the error!" "I should have said no at the beginning like Mandelstam" "We are chickens we see only one grain at a time peck peck to the farmer grabs us chopped" "Get up, Dimitri!" "Could it be me in America" "now price of among" "Prokofiev doesn't stand a chance" ".. international a perfectly good answer, not russian of course." "as for instance elephants these days are russian" "Karl Marx is russian, Isaac Newton is russian" "The moon is Russian." "as our minion radio would say first prize: dinner with Stalin second prize: a week with Stalin." "Old joke." "Candidates on stage!" "We are about to declare." "I am awake like Dostoyevsky on his way to execution." "Vivid as never before." "I'm Shostakovich on my way to meet Stalin" "All my life has been a dream for this moment" "Stop twitching Remember the joke" "Who is Nicolas the first ?" "Tzar in the time of Pushkin have I everything to lose and that is lost." "Courage comes easy now" "A black monk's name is death" "I must keep my trousers clean" "Comrade, well done" "Well done!" "It had to be your tune at one" "I like a tune" "rolls to the occasion" "You know that?" "You are the brightest and the most talented" "You know that ?" "I am honored comrade general secretary that you regard me so" "Your friend Khachaturian spins a good melody" "Is not russian, of course." "Comrade, sing me tight spoiled is calling in our view" "you should D flat clarinet sardonic thunder" "sarcastic we don't like that" "Let it aside comrade Shostakovich" "Your ninth symphony the number nine" "perhaps.." "I should retitle it Sinfonietta" "Reserve the number nine for my next" "An ode to joy!" "I shall feel equal, Comrade Stalin" "I assure you." "I enjoy my conversations with creative men." "Where do they come,from I wonder wills noises in their head" "On stage comrades" "Let's see noble anthem Shostakovich has composed" "Will you, on my right ?" "If comrade Shostakovich will allow me to conduct!" "Leningrad naked to bombard from the sky" "When that happens thanks Stalin" "Remember me." ".. to that studio and that crazy Christian woman" ".. recording he'll ask him for" ".." "Find me a conductor,!" "Clean that floor !" "Today we condemn and murder others" "Tomorrow we ourselves are condemned and murdered" "To where?" "the Communist party's policy includes" "We shall handsome" "To reach the people, that is the question and how is it done" "shall handsome" "He killed the giant in the end?" "Perhaps" "What if he all along if he be right?" "confess to us all" "On the night of the 1st and 2nd of March music the first solid incurred a hemorrhage of the brain the left hemisphere to high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis" "drive in the south" "the cardiovascular system namely a high blood pressure ..." "You're not dead!" "enlargement of the heart from the first days of illness the temperature rose and high glucose opposes began which could have implicated the development of the pneumonia" "On the last day of the illness the sudden deterioration of the general condition was attended by repeated are thought to persevere and acute cardiovascular deficency... urine analysis..." "Urine analysis?" "When they announced that I thought the demigod please.." "you're lying there listening to everything we say" "Communist Party of the Soviet..." "And you will rise again" "God's hammer" "The immortal name of Stalin will be forever..." "Sheep.." "Their Shephard gone" "A message from the central comitee of the Comunist Party of the Soviet union" "If only we russian people had one neck" "I'm alive and you're dead!" "Our rough hammer could not create anything without a master to direct its blows" "I forget him for coming at the funeral" "died the same day jumped up with excitement and drop dead!" "for jump and he called himself a gambler !" "God!" "The great craftsman" "Oh let the hammer fall!" ".. me" "Father!" "you Westerners think we in Russia talk politics all the time." "there are no politics in Russia" "But surely the dialectics of harmony symphonic revolutionary in context of struggle how can you Russians not discuss such things?" "We manage." "We manage." "Lots of problems fascinate musicians here" "Amma's all she put away so much booze" "Tchaikovsky's homosexuality " "Dimitri, you're being grow" "No memorial here." "Only the cliff." "Here were ...chasms" "Grim forms of stone" "The brink of a ravine" "clenched fists of rock." "The very reek of death." "They filed along the rink they stood astride the grave shots ran out" "the bodies fell into the ravine" "Next, more came grain merchants women with lace umbrellas." "All stood along the brink" "Shots rang out their bodies fell into the ravine some kicked there by boots next some of the children now" "Come rabbi, sing !" "Sing for the children to dance!" "kill the EDS, save our Russia!" "Dance children,dance!" "the shots ran out, their bodies fell into the ravine" "At last a union of the Russian people!" "Next" "Fascist atrocity, of course." ""Pogrom" however is a Russian word." "These are the sounds of spring." "We embrace in the darkness." "Do I hear them breaking down the door?" "No, it's the ice breaking." "My dear, nothing happened here." "No history, no memorial." "Nothing is very real of any of us." "But with that status comes responsibility" "We are here today to exact that responsibility" "It's the noise of springtime birth" "Spring is here" "Breaking ice" "what you're already telling us" "Hi Dmitry Dimitrievici a private individual abuse the victory" "I have some principal cause" "Have you seen my husband?" "Have you seen my son?" "Once I've believed, we Russians do, we believe and believe simple things." "After the revolution russian soldiers won't kill russian children anymore, we said and apples will be for all alike." "Only one virtue dying enforces economy." "One note must do the work of 10." "I write music to make people ill." "Did you know that?" "That rehearsal of my 14th symphony a cultural commissar stood up and dropped dead" "He got the message." "you mustn't laugh, to laugh will kill me." "Bastard!" "You hijacked my soul" "Something died from your music , when I died." "You stopped speaking." "All necessity, you see." "I made a great composer of you, damn it!" "You left me a barren tree to pluck poor fruit." "who is there anywhere in any time to come to live his life from the life you lost all" "I am the enemy you loved my friend." "Together again I see?" "the foul and his tzar" "I made Russia strong" "I found her a medieval topper" "No one tampers with Russia now." "Or did you do?" "Truth half some set values streaks and bangs thumps are howling in the head" "My music speaks reaches out to people where nothing else can touch, it's a warning." "We must stop that." "Can't hurt people living where we can't reach." "That's my meaning!" "I destroyed what you call truthfulness yours being with life must die" "you... ah my friend it's long bleak coda into the dark" "That is your significance" "And what people really want my friend one day you'll see they'll ask me back" "what conduct their black/white just 30 grade" "Stan Dimitri you're being licked into shape." "The great Soviet composer." "oh yes the man has judgments." "I write what I hear from within myself which comes from who I am in this world in which I am or else I have no meaning." "This world you're in.." "You're in Russia" "Come on, fool!" "So ... was that all ?" "Soon the ravens will be here." "A lovely corps." "What did the man die of?" "Nerves?" "Hot?" "Of quicklime in the blood which Stalin fed me" "Bury me well or else like Gogol I might vanish from my grave." "Ask me nothing anymore." "Ask the music."