Larry Sherwood: >Jim Tobin references Shostakovich's fourth string quartet, and some >cicumstances attending its early performances. I'd like to clarify his >reference by quoting from Elizabeth Wilson's "Shostakovich: A Life >Remembered", who in turn quotes from Valentin Berlinksy, cellist of the >Borodin quartet. Larry has helped me recover my reference, which was Stormy Applause: Making Music in a Worker's State (1989), by Rostislav Dubinsky [Dubinskii], who was, I believe, first violinist of the Borodin Quartet, as I said. Now I am going to have to retrieve that book from the library to compare my memory with the text and with Larry's. Jim Tobin