'I can hardly believe these MSO programme notes could be so ill-informed and so keen to whitewash an era of hideous tyranny and murder in the now-unlamented Soviet Union,' I complained some years ago. To my surprise, my gripe was taken to heart. I seriously doubt that would be the reaction today
In 1983, Nelli Shkolnikova, said to be the best woman violinist in the Soviet Union, defected to Australia to work as the Victorian Arts Centre’s first artist-in-residence.