IN SEARCH OF SHOSTAKOVICH
Part One: Monday, Nov 6, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. (8:30 NT)
Part Two: Monday, Nov 13, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. (8:30 NT)
Part Three: Monday, Nov 20, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. (8:30 NT)
Music journalist and broadcaster Tamara Bernstein prepared and presented a 3-part documentary series called In Search of Shostakovich for CBC Radio’s Ideas in 1994. This series explores the life and music of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975) set against the historical and cultural developments within the Soviet Union and remains timely listening in this Shostakovich centenary year.
CLIP ONE (runs 1:06) 
Laurel Fay, musicologist and author of Shostakovich: A Life
on Shostakovich’s regard for Alexander Glazunov, director of the
Petrograd Conservatory.
CLIP TWO (runs 1:20)
Oleg Prokofiev, son of composer Sergei Prokofiev, contemporary of Dmitri
Shostakovich on artistic freedom
CLIP THREE (runs 2:11)
Elizabeth Wilson, author of A Life Remembered on artistic developments
in early Soviet Russia.
CLIP FOUR (runs 2:08)
Dr. Caryl Emerson, professor of Slavic language and literature at Princeton
University on “socialist realism”
CLIP FIVE (runs 2:27)
Richard Taruskin, professor of music at the University of California at
Berkeley, and author of The Oxford History of Western Music on Shostakovich’s
Fifth Symphony