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Stalin called his work "noise, not music." Pravda once sneered that it "reeks of the bourgeois." Now the sour notes have died away, and there he was in the Moscow Conservatory, shy, bespectacled and frail as ever, answering cheers at a concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich received another gift too: the Soviet title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Best of all was the successful first Moscow performance of his new piece, Cello Concerto No. 2, conducted by a similarly slight, bespectacled musician: Dmitri's 28-year-old son Maxim...
...some 90 New York Stock Exchange member firms, I have a high respect for Merrill Lynch's professional capabilities, but I find its pious, holier-than-thou preaching about commissions and mutual funds somewhat less than candid. Also, I might point out that it has risen from 60th place to third place among underwriters without any compunctions about acting on behalf of trusts and corporations as a dealer of large secondary distributions, where the commissions to the salesmen are five times as large as for normal brokerage. Isn't the customer entitled to be told when buying...
...Luftwaffe's fleet of some 700 modified Lockheeds has been decimated by crashes. Last week the 60th and 61st went down. The losses-26 alone in 1965-have created a public furor in West Germany, and subjected the Luftwaffe to severe criticism...
...concerts were billed as the anniversary of yet another adventure, the 60th year since Rubinstein's American debut. Anniversary? Rubinstein likes to pretend that he cannot stand the thought of such a dreary thing. "I hate anniversaries!" he roars. "They are feasting on something that is stale." Not so. They are feasting a most remarkable virtuoso. Rubinstein has played more concerts before more people, sold more record albums (more than 5,000,000), grossed more money and attracted a more widely popular following than any other classical instrumentalist in history. At a time when artists 25 years his junior...
...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Leonard Bernstein conducts Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony in a tribute to the composer's 60th birthday...