Met Museum’s Chamber Musicians Play Mendelssohn and Gubaidulina

From NYTimes.com:

When the 78-year-old Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina applied for graduate school in Moscow early in her career, her musical aesthetic irked the Soviet establishment. But she was encouraged by Shostakovich (who had plenty of experience battling artistic ideologies) to continue to take the “wrong course” musically.

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