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| How I was driven out of Russia at the time of democracy and glasnost |
| It has been six months since I was “excommunicated” from the Russian State Symphony Orchestra. When the Minister of Culture, Mikhail Efimovich Shvydkoi, signed the order for my dismissal, he knew full well that this order would not only deprive me of my job with the orchestra but would quite simply prevent me from working as a conductor in Russia. Not long before, during a private conversation, Mikhail Efimovich had warned me, “Do not be surprised if all the orchestras in Moscow refuse to work with you. You see, orchestra musicians have rather unusual ideas about solidarity”. |
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How I was driven out of Russia at the time of democracy and glasnost
