Maestros and their motor cars (15): Shostakovich takes Mravinsky for a Tour d’Eiffel
Daily Comfort ZoneThis is Paris, September 1960.
The unseen passengers are KGB men.
photo: Dieter Nagl
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If this is Paris, isn’t Shostakovich one of the passengers? Unless the photo has been reversed.
Photo reversal: One way to check…on which side of his head did Shosti part his hair?
Yes, not “his” car, obviously.
I remember when the Leningrad Philharmonic came to Leeds in 1978 with a young Mariss Jansons. Two KGB operatives stood on the front of the stage at the extreme right and left for the whole first half (Prokofiev Classical Symphony and Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Tretyakov). They glared at the audience throughout. Ain’t Communism great?
When Kondrashin conducted Butterfly in Chicago ’58, two “interpreters” (KGB) were always with him.
This is probably a 1957 Peugeot 403, based on the door trim and the lack of a front vent window.
A Russian had a car???!!!!!!
Well Brezhnev had a huge collection and Nixon gave him a Chevrolet in 1972 and a Cadillac in 1974……..