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- This recital was interrupted by two incidents involving members of the audience. According to the New York Times ("Paint Bomb Is Hurled at Spivakov, But Violinist Never Drops a Beat," by Peter G. Davis, Nov. 9, 1976, pg. 32), the first incident occurred during Schubert's Sonata in A Minor, when a man "stormed down the aisle shouting in Russian, "remember the Soviet Jews," and threw a crumpled object toward the back of the stage, past Mr. Spivakov and his accompanist, Boris Bechterev." The second incident occurred during the next piece, Bach's Chaconne in D Minor, "when another man hurled a paint bomb at Mr. Spivakov, whose white dress shirt was suddenly spattered with blood-red paint. Both men were quickly removed, and the concert proceeded without further incident." The article goes on to state that "Mr. Spivakov never dropped a beat all through the uproar, and ended on such a note of passionate intensity that the audience rose and cheered him to the skies."
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