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- <text id=89TT0265>
- <title>
- Jan. 23, 1989: In An Evil Hour
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 23, 1989 Barbara Bush:The Silver Fox
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 60
- In an Evil Hour
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- <p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
- </p>
- <p> Once upon a time, long before glasnost, there was Stalin,
- and no one in the Soviet Union could have any fun -- especially
- at his expense. Last week Mstislav Rostropovich, the exiled
- Soviet cellist and conductor of the National Symphony in
- Washington, premiered a secret relic from the land before
- perestroika: a satirical cantata directed at Stalin's artistic
- imbecilities. Its composer, the late Dmitri Shostakovich, had so
- feared for his safety that he did not keep a copy of Rayok
- (meaning both Small Paradise and Peanut Gallery) at home.
- Rostropovich, a friend of the Shostakovich family, would not
- say how he got hold of the piece. Might the Kremlin allow
- Rostropovich to perform Rayok in Moscow? "I'm not asking to
- go," he says. "Washington is a very cozy place for me."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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