Pravda's 'Muddle Instead of Music'
1936 · Event
Two days after Stalin walks out of Lady Macbeth, an unsigned Pravda editorial damns it as 'muddle instead of music' — and warns it could 'end very badly'. Shostakovich withdraws his Fourth Symphony.
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