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Solomon Volkov puts the record straight (Letters, Tempo 207) in pointing out that Yuri Kochnev, and not Maxim Shostakovich, conducted the 1968 stage premiere in Leningrad of Rothschild's Violin. As well as expressing gratitude for this correction, I should wish to add that at the time of writing my article (Tempo 206), Shostakovich Reconsidered had not been published. The latter contains further astute speculation that Shostakovich may have orchestrated most of Fleischmann's opera. Still, the following is surely clear: Shostakovich, as I understand it, gives exact information as to which bars he himself orchestrated, and, in the absence of evidence of anything written in Fleischmann's own hand, 1 am ready to believe that the master is giving the pupil what is the pupil's due. 1 incline to such a view because Shostakovich himself was so insistent that orchestration is intrinsic to compositional integrity. This being the case, it is fair to conjecture that his most gifted student would have gone at least some way in indicating, right at the genesis of his work, the orchestration of