No mention of Shostakovitch at all? He set ‘Babi Yar’ in his 13th symphony.
The Shostakovich 13th was how I first learned about Yevtushenko!
I can’t remember exactly - it was the late ‘60s or early ‘70s. I was listening to the syndicated weekly concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra (with Ormandy conducting) that my local station, the late KFAC, carried. As usual, I was spellbound.
The announcer said that tonight they were presenting “the premier in the Western Hemisphere of the 13th Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich.” It was wonderful. Of course, when the album was released, I rushed out and got it.
Sometime later I watched Yevtushenko on the David Frost TV show.