It opened instead in mid-winter in 1974 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), where it was conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

ECONOMIST: Alfred Schnittke

Other artists hand-picked by Wyatt to appear include John Sunman and Jack DeJohnette, The Residents, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and the Terry Riley Allstars.

BBC: Meltdown for legend Wyatt

In 1930, he found his mentor, Arshile Gorky, whose harrowing agon with the art of Picasso broached a new mode of pictorial space.

NEWYORKER: Shifting Picture