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Hovhaness and Cage: Piano Compositions (Maro Ajemian at the piano with Alan Hovhaness assisting at piano, gong and drums; Disc, 4 sides). Hovhaness composes with ancient Armenian instruments (tar, kanoon, oud and saz) in mind, achieves a marimba-like effect on Jie piano which is near-hypnotic in its insistence on repeated notes. Maro Ajemian performs John Cage's Amores, I & IV on a Cage "prepared piano" (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) which gives off intriguing thwacking sounds, graduated in pitch and timbre. Performance: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Moscow's contingent (from the Soviet Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kirghizia, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) got in some propaganda punches for Russia's brand of imperialism. Said the Armenian delegate: "My people were backward until we became a part of the U.S.S.R.; after this event our period of hardship ended forever." The Russian section had a formula for every problem: try Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Pride of the East | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Khachaturian: Gayne (pronounced "guy-nuh") Ballet Suite (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). The furious-paced, but sometimes silkily lush music for Khachaturian's ballet on Soviet collective farm life. The ballet, which is loud with the pounding rhythms of Armenian dances, won its 43-year-old Soviet-Armenian composer the Stalin Prize in 1942. Performance: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...owned by Anglo-Iranian Oil (23¾%); the British-controlled Royal Dutch-Shell (23¾%); Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum, through their jointly owned Near East Development Corp. (23¾%); the French Government through its Compagnie Française des Petroles (23¾%). The only individual is a mysterious Armenian financier, Calouste S. Gulbenkian, whose 5% gives him a distant claim to the title of the "world's richest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Blue-Chip Game | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...caught Le grand Charlie's imperious, cold character perfectly. John L. Lewis dashed out of his chair after each exposure, dashed out of the room the fourth time. George Bernard Shaw gave Karsh five minutes when he sat down. But when he found out that Karsh was an Armenian by birth, he gave him a Shavian shaving: "I have many friends among the Armenians, but to keep them strong and healthy they should be exterminated every little while." Later he gave Karsh all the time he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Face of History | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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