The idea that a festival of national music could be more important than Shostakovich’s disgrace may seem surprising. Instead, it was the Ukrainian music festival, the dekada, in Moscow in March 1936 that principally turned the attention of the Soviet media towards music. Even the initial article, ‘Sumbur vmesto muzїki ’ was only on page three. In fact, this attack was never mentioned in Izvestiya neither was it ever top news in Pravda. ![]() This event looks, on the face of it, like a response to the attack Pravda launched against Shostakovich in January and February 1936. Suddenly in 1936, musicmade it to the front pages of both Pravda and Izvestiya, not just once but several times. For several weeks, coverage of the first Writers’ Congress in August 1934 practically filled the main newspapers, Pravda and Izvestiya, with articles on literature. ![]() During the first eighteen years of Soviet power, music was never at the centre of attention in the way that literature had been.
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