“…Once, (at Ustvolskaya’s apartment on Gagarin street,) the conversation turned to Beethoven and his Ninth Symphony. “But is it well said: ‘be embraced, millions?’ she suddenly said.” I did not know what to answer, so unexpected was her comment. It seemed at first that Galia was joking, but there was not even a hint of a joke in her eyes then…”

This book is about a unique composer of the 20^th century whose work embodies the main contradictions of art and culture of the epoch. It is a reflection on the interconnections of the innovation, without which the very development of art is impossible, and the true spirituality, without which there could be no culture, no art, nor could life itself exist.

Simon Bokman was born in Kiev in 1950. In 1974 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music in Leningrad, where his composition teacher was Galina Ustvolskaya. Mr. Bokman lives in the United States since 1998. He teaches piano, composes, and writes poetry. A collection of his poems in Russian “On the Edge of the Universe” was published in Baltimore, MD in 2006. His music has been performed in Russia, England, and the USA.

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