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PEOPLE, Page 60In an Evil HourBy Howard G. Chua-Eoan
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."