“Music has an enormous advantage: it can, without mentioning anything, say everything.”
Ilya Ehrenburg, Liudi, gody, zhizn’ (quoted in Solomon Volkov’s Shostakovich and Stalin, forthcoming in April from Knopf)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“Music has an enormous advantage: it can, without mentioning anything, say everything.”
Ilya Ehrenburg, Liudi, gody, zhizn’ (quoted in Solomon Volkov’s Shostakovich and Stalin, forthcoming in April from Knopf)