"Intervision" (Russian: Интервидение, romanized: Intervidenie) is a brief orchestral work by Dmitri Shostakovich composed in 1971.
[1] Because "Intervision" was regularly used to preface broadcasts of foreign news items, it became one of the composer's best-known in the final decades of the Soviet Union.
Viewers know that they will be followed by the announcement of an important event, an interesting program, or authentic and exhaustive information.
Shostakovich's sketch for "Intervision" has been preserved in good condition, with only slight darkening of its paper occurring in the intervening decades.
[9] The autograph score, which contained portions of Shostakovich's transcription for voices and piano of his Symphony No.