Rudolph Shostakovich

I visited the break in the Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 action Wednesday morning for this week's video blog. David Halen attempts to speak of the deep significance of the composer's work, until Danny Lee breaks into "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer," (which for some reason sounds to me like "Happy Birthday" at the moment). David recovers admirably. And Erik Harris explains the podium manner of a brilliant Russian conductor, Vassily Sinaisky.