http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDZTah8J2A
My Festive Overture, Op. 96; being played at the Nobel Prize concert.
After Stalin had died, arts were able to be free as they were and not kept under a watchful eye, forcing artists to be as Stalin forced them to be. At about the time of my Tenth Symphony’s premiere (after Stalin's death), in December 1953, I was asked to compose a short orchestral piece to be performed in the following year’s 37th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution. The Festive Overture I wrote for the occasion was given its premiere at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater on November 6, 1954, and made it through its original purpose to take its place in the international repertory.
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