Shostakovich - Piano Trio. No. #2 in E minor Op. 67

There was a funny anecdote that the conductor told about Dimitry Shostakovich in his introduction to this piece last night. Shostakovich was visiting the US and he was talking to students in a music conservatory in Baltimore and someone asked him that the problem with Soviet Union schools was that people weren't allowed to compose what they wanted. Shostakovich replied back that the problem with American conservatories was that people were allowed to compose what they wanted.!!