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====== - 1980: Irina Rozanova, having emigrated to Paris, publishes “The Silent Score: The Music of Yakob Gyorgi Gershovitz”. The book receives minor acclaim in Europe and becomes essential reading in émigré music circles. ======
* 1981: A reel-to-reel copy of Symphony No. 3: For the Silence Beneath the Snow is smuggled into the U.S. and aired on WNYC, introduced as “an unplayed ghostwork of Soviet modernism.”
* 1984: A small Manhattan dance company choreographs a piece to “Etude for a Silenced Body,” reconstructed from Franka’s notebooks. The performance—barefoot, minimalist, stark—stuns critics and is picked up by PBS.
* 1985–1988: As Gorbachev’s perestroika opens the archives, Israel’s banned manuscripts begin to circulate again inside the USSR, passed among intelligentsia as moral relics of a more honest time.

By the late 1980s, the Gershovitz siblings were being spoken of—tentatively—as unjustly suppressed voices of Soviet cultural conscience.

But few had read them fully. Fewer had performed them. And none had yet bought them.