In “The Long Goodbye”, hard-boiled crime writer Raymond Chandler wrote: “At three a.m. I was walking the floor and listening to Khachaturyan working in a tractor factory. He called it a violin concerto. I called it a loose fan belt and the hell with it.”

In “The Long Goodbye”, hard-boiled crime writer Raymond Chandler wrote: “At three a.m. I was walking the floor and listening to Khachaturyan working in a tractor factory. He called it a violin concerto. I called it a loose fan belt and the hell with it.”