Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Permissions xiii
5. Note on Transliteration xvii
6. PART I DOCUMENTS
7. Shostakovich: Letters to His Mother, 1923-1927 1
8. Responses of Shostakovich to a Questionnaire on the Psychology of the Creative Process 27
9. Stalin and Shostakovich: Letters to a "Friend" 43
10. "The Phenomenon of the Seventh": A Documentary Essay on Shostakovich's "War" Symphony 59
11. PART II ESSAYS
12. Shostakovich as Industrial Saboteur: Observations on The Bolt 117
13. The Nose and the Fourteenth Symphony: An Affinity of Opposites 163
14. Shostakovich and the Russian Literary Tradition 183
15. Fried Chicken in the Bird-Cherry Trees 227
16. Shostakovich and His Pupils 275
17. Shostakovich's "Twelve-Tone" Compositions and the Politics and Practice of Soviet Serialism 303
18. Listening to Shostakovich 355
19. INDEX 385
20. CONTRIBUTORS 401