"Pornophony."
— Dmitri Shostakovich
January 1, 1970
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From a 1935 review of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in the New York Sun, quoted in Richard Taruskin Defining Russia Musically (1997) p. 505.
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From a 1935 review of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in the New York Sun, quoted in Richard Taruskin Defining Russia Musically (1997) p. 505.