Karpadenko had a reputation of being an awkward customer but others saw him as a man of principle who was not prepared to compromise music and always wanted to defend the interests of his orchestrant his players. When he considered the invitation to the international day concert he could see it as a simple bluff a simple lie because it was meant to prove that life was normal again. He went back home and seemed to fall very quiet no one knew quite what was happening to him members of the Russian Secret Service went along to see him and to try to persuade him to change his mind they went to his flat and he gave them a pretty curd answer  they said they would be back and when