
Originally Posted by
amateur51
Cheers Ofca!
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K to connect
The Soviet secret police
Chekhov
Gliere and
Stanislavsky
The answer is musical
I think the answer is Knipper.
Lev Knipper, a composer who was taught by Glière, was the nephew of Chekhov's wife Olga who had been an actress in Stanislavski's Moscow Art School. He had rows with Shostakovich, but it became clear subsequently that he was an agent of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB...
"The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9