Table of Contents
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration and on Translation
Introduction
Part I.
1. Shostakovich versus Volkov: Whose Testimony? (1980)
Laurel E. Fay
2. Volkov's Testimony Reconsidered (2002)
Laurel E. Fay
Part II.
3. A Side-By-Side Comparison of Texts from Testimony With Their Original Sources
4. A Pitiful Forgery: About the So-Called "Memoirs" of D. D. Shostakovich (1979)
(A letter to the editor of the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta)
5. The Bedbug (1979)
(An editorial published in the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta) (1979)
6. The Official Dossier (1979)
(A news item published in the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta)
7. Notes from the Soviet Archives on Volkov's Testimony (1995)
Alla Bogdanova
8. An Episode in the Life of a Book: An Interview with Henry Orlov (2000)
Ludmila Kovnatskaya
9. An Answer to Those Who Still Abuse Shostakovich (2000)
Irina Shostakovich
10. On Solomon Volkov and Testimony (1988; 1997)
Boris Tishchenko
11. The Regime and Vulgarity (1999)
Elena Basner
12. Shostakovich's World is Our World (1998)
Mistislav Rostropovich Talks With Manashir Yakubov
13. Shostakovich Remembered: Interviews With His Soviet Colleagues (1992)
Irina Nikolskaya
Part III.
14. A Link in the Chain: Reflections on Shostakovich and His Times (1976)
Henry Orlov
15. A Perspective on Soviet Musical Culture During the Lifetime of Shostakovich
(1998)
Levon Hakobian
16. The Latest "New Shostakovich" (2000)
Levon Hakobian
17. Dialogues About Shostakovich: From the History of Russian Studies About Shostakovich (2002)
Ludmila Kovnatskaya
Part IV.
18. Ian MacDonald's The New Shostakovich (1993)
Malcolm Hamrick Brown
19. Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (1996)
Malcolm Hamrick Brown
20. A Response to Papers by Allan Ho and Dmitri Feofanov (1998)
David Fanning
21. Whose Shostakovich? (2000)
Gerard McBurney
22. The Shostakovich Variations (2000)
Paul Mitchinson
23. Shostakovich: A Brief Encounter and a Present Perspective (1996; 2002)
Malcolm Hamrick Brown
24. Laurel Fay's Shostakovich: A Life (2000)
Simon Morrison
25. When Serious Music Mattered (2001)
Richard Taruskin
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
List of Contributors:
ELENA VENIAMINOVNA BASNER, daughter of composer Veniamin Basner, one of Shostakovich's most trusted friends
ALLA VLADIMIROVNA BOGDANOVA has published a number of books in Russian on the music of Shostakovich
MALCOLM HAMRICK BROWN is founding editor of the scholarly series Russian Music Studies
DAVID FANNING is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Manchester.
LAUREL E. FAY's scholarly biography, Shostakovich: A Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), received the Otto Kinkeldey Award in 2001 from the American Musicological Society
LEVON HAKOBIAN (in Russia, LEV OGANESOVICH AKOPIAN) holds a position as Senior Research Fellow at the Russian State Institute for Art Studies in Moscow
LUDMILA GRIGORIEVNA KOVNATSKAYA teaches at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg and holds the title, Senior Research Fellow at the Russian Institute of Fine Arts History, St. Petersburg
GERARD MCBURNEY composes, arranges, teaches, and writes about music
PAUL MITCHINSON is a Canadian writer and historian
SIMON MORRISON teaches music history at Princeton
IRINA NIKOLAEVNA NIKOLSKAYA specializes in twentieth-century Polish music
HENRY ORLOV (GENRIKH ALEKSANDROVICH ORLOV) formerly served as Senior Research Fellow at the Leningrad State Scientific Research Institute for Theater, Music, and Film
IRINA ANTONOVNA SHOSTAKOVICH (née SUPINSKAYA), Shostakovich's third wife
RICHARD TARUSKIN, recognized internationally for his scholarship on Russian music BORIS IVANOVICH TISHCHENKO, noted Russian composer
MANASHIR ABRAMOVICH YAKUBOV, Curator of the Shostakovich Family Archive in Moscow
