In Testimony Shostakovich himself expressed a dislike for the performance, after he heard a recording of the broadcast.

Shostakovich mentioned in Testimony that there were many similar stories about Glazunov's memory.

Bouis, Antonina W., Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich ( New York: The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1995 ).

Antonina W. Bouis, Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich ( New York: Harper & Row, 1979 .).

As he writes in the preface to Testimony, Volkov's interviews with Shostakovich consisted of questions to which the composer provided " brief " and " reluctant " answers, and which Volkov compiled in a " mound of shorthand notes.

Also Maxim Shostakovich has commented on Testimony and Volkov more favourably after 1991 when the Soviet regime fell.

Kara Karayev died in 1982, but his son Faradzh Karayev has testified in 1999 that his father had read the German translation of Testimony and told his family that " Mitya Shostakovich couldn't have written this, let alone allowed its publication.

As a translator of Testimony, the Finnish musicologist Seppo Heikinheimo ( 1938 – 1997 ) had a copy of the Russian-language manuscript of Testimony in his possession, and he claims that he showed the text to dozens of Russian musicians, many of whom knew Shostakovich.

* Fay, Laurel: Shostakovich versus Volkov: Whose Testimony?

He told CBS that Shostakovich had written a " hidden message " in the symphony, which is supported by the composer's words in Testimony.

While the Eleventh Symphony was received fairly warmly in the West due in part to its assumed allusion to the Hungarian uprising of 1956 ( an allusion Shostakovich reportedly confirmed in Testimony ), the Twelfth's apparently pro-Communist subject matter led to a poor reception there.

Antonina W. Bouis, Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich ( New York: Harper & Row, 1979 .).

Shostakovich reportedly claimed in Testimony,

Antonina W. Bouis, Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich ( New York: Harper & Row, 1979 ).

Shostakovich reportedly answered his critics in Testimony:

Antonina W. Bouis, Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich ( New York: Harper & Row, 1979 ).

Ever since the American scholar Laurel E. Fay demonstrated that the beginning of each chapter closely parallels earlier published texts by Shostakovich, musicologists have remained divided on the value of Testimony.

In addition, Irina Shostakovich is now the only member of the Shostakovich family who denounces Testimony.

Significantly, recent Shostakovich research ( such as the discovery of a fragment of the original version of the Ninth Symphony ) has tended to corroborate what is stated in Testimony rather than the other way around.

Antonina W. Bouis, Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich ( New York: Harper & Row, 1979 ).

* Testimony, based on the memoirs of Shostakovich as dictated in the book Testimony ( 1987 )

Aron Habrit ), also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in Book of Exodus as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed and pieces of manna.

A Latin text was found in Milan in the 19th century by Antonio Ceriani who called it the Assumption of Moses, even though it does not refer to an assumption of Moses or contain portions of the Assumption which are cited by ancient authors, and it is apparently actually the Testimony.

Testimony to morphine's addictive and reinforcing nature is its relapse rate.

Testimony from women is given only half the weight of men, and testimony from non-Muslims may be excluded altogether ( if against a Muslim ).

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, a volume co-authored by Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimké sisters, is also a source of some of the novel's content.

Fundamentalism is a movement, rather than a denomination or a systematic theology, which gained ascendance after the release of a ten-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic, written by many well-known conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy — covering a wide range of topics, from defenses of the Divinity of Jesus Christ, his Virgin Birth, of the historicity of Biblical narratives, Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, and of Biblical inerrancy against the prevalent higher-critical theories of the day, to the falsity of theological systems such as Christian Science, " Millennial Dawnism ", Mormonism, to the errors of " Romanism "— over the course of 1910-1915, called The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, from which the movement receives its eponymous name.

Testimony may be oral or written, and it is usually made by oath or affirmation under penalty of perjury.

On the upper cone is a display featuring 600 photographs of Holocaust victims and fragments of Pages of Testimony.

Surrounding the platform is the circular repository, housing the approximately 2. 2 million Pages of Testimony collected to date, with empty spaces for those yet to be submitted — room for six million Pages in all.

There is a Quaker belief called Testimony of Simplicity that a person ought to live her or his life simply.

Members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) practice the Testimony of Simplicity, which is the simplifying of one's life in order to focus on things that are most important and disregard or avoid things that are least important.

The folklorist Charles G. Leland, who positively reviewed MacRitchie's book The Testimony of Tradition ( 1890 ), wrote " The book should be of exceptional interest to every folk-lorist, both on account of its subject-matter and also on account of the manner in which it is treated ".

The fair treatment of people of all races is now part of the Friends ' Testimony of Equality.

The period leading to this decision is described on the solo album Testimony ( 2003 ), an epic, introspective composition which features Kerry Livgren of Kansas and Mike Portnoy.

This argument is most fully exhibited in a treatise entitled The Testimony of the King of Martyrs ( 1729 ).

The Testimony of the King of Martyrs concerning His Kingdom ( 1729 ) is a classic repudiation of erastianism and defence of the spiritual autonomy of the church under Jesus Christ.

* The Testimony of Mr. Elon Musk-U. S. Senate Committee Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX: " If I can emphasize, underscore and highlight one strategy for Congress, it is to offer prizes of meaningful scale and scope.

Webb later sent Jackson a Motion to Recant Testimony, that declared, " Mr. Willingham is innocent of all charges.

Testimony ( Russian: Свидетельство ) is a book that was published in October 1979 by the Russian musicologist Solomon Volkov.

According to Heikinheimo, Mstislav Rostropovich ( in 1979 ) considered that Testimony is authentic, as did Rudolf Barshai, Kirill Kondrashin, Yuri Lyubimov, Gidon Kremer, Emil Gilels, and Sviatoslav Richter.

The existence of apparently separate congregations is understood by the community not as in any sense being a schism or separation from the one Catholic Church, but a separation to a special work of restoration, blessing and intercession on behalf of it on the one hand, and the results of the rejection of the Testimony on the other.

However, this final movement, often being criticized for sounding shrill, is declared in Testimony to be a parody of shrillness, representing " forced rejoicing ".

The second movement is a short and violent scherzo, described in Testimony as " a musical portrait of Stalin, roughly speaking ".