Volume 56, Number 12 · July 16, 2009

Shostakovich at Oxford

By Isaiah Berlin

The following letter from Isaiah Berlin to his friend Rowland Burdon-Muller about Dmitry Shostakovich's visit to Oxford appears in Berlin's Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960, to be published in the US in late July. The book marks the hundredth anniversary of his birth in 1909.



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