Tikhon Khrennikov, longtime head of the Union of Soviet Composers, one of Shostakovich’s most vociferous denouncers in 1948, has died at the age of ninety-four. Would that Shostakovich had lived so long instead.
Tikhon Khrennikov, longtime head of the Union of Soviet Composers, one of Shostakovich’s most vociferous denouncers in 1948, has died at the age of ninety-four. Would that Shostakovich had lived so long instead.