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<text id=89TT0265>
<title>
Jan. 23, 1989: In An Evil Hour
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<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>
</body></article>
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