Shostakovitch - (2) Cheryomushki (Duet and Pantomime)
and embarrassed with its crudity. Just days before the pieces premiere in the Moscow Operetta Theatre, he wrote to his acquaintance Isaak Glikman: "I am behaving very properly and attending rehearsals of my operetta. I am burning with shame. If you have any thoughts of coming to the first night, I advise you to think again. It is not worth spending time to feast your eyes and ears on my disgrace. Boring, unimaginative, stupid. This is, in confidence, all I have to tell you
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