Meryl Goldberg
Conservatory-trained saxophonist and musician who participated in the 1985 mission to the Soviet Union to contact refusenik musicians and who encoded information into musical notation to smuggle stories out.
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Feb 6, 2026 • 23min
Coded music
Karen Duffin, producer/reporter who narrates the Cold War Phantom Orchestra mission, and Meryl Goldberg, conservatory-trained saxophonist who encoded messages into music. They recount a covert 1985 trip to Moscow, training in evasion, turning sheet music into code, clandestine concerts under surveillance, and the risky smuggling of stories out of the USSR.
