ABSTRACT
Ch. 24: originally published in The Christian Science Monitor, August 21, 1963.
This was to be my last day in Moscow, but the airport at my next destination, Warsaw, was, in the technical phrase of airmen, “not accepting” on account of ground fog. I already had said my fond farewells to my professional colleagues and personal friends among Soviet composers and musicologists. We had even gone through the traditional ritual of sitting down for a few minutes before a final send-off, an allegorical bon voyage concluding with wishes of Godspeed, which sounds even more emphatically religious in Russian: “With God!”
