Music and power

The book of the famous violinist Arthur Shtilman, who played many years in the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra and gave solo concerts, and after emigration in the United States in 1979, the Metropolitan Opera operated in the orchestra is devoted to an important and always relevant topic: the attitude of power to music and musicians, their relationships and interacting, different aspects of their interaction. The reader learns about difficult relationships with the authorities of many outstanding musicians. Heroes of the book David Westers and Mstislav Rostropovich, Iehahhi Menuhin and Isaac Stern, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, Yves Montan and many others.
Arthur Shtilman is not new to the world of literature. He constantly prints articles and essays about music and musicians in various publications of America and Russia