Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what holds for writers is just as true for musicians. The latest Soviet artist to feel the sting of Zhdanov's whip was once-favored Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Loudly hailed as "a triumph of our great victory" at its premiere, Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony was described last week by the Central Committee's Culture and Life as a "playful and fanciful trifle . . . sharp and screaming" and hopelessly lacking in "warm, ideological conviction." It was probably, conceded the young composer's critic charitably, the fault of undue influence by expatriate Russian Composer Stravinsky, "an artist without...
Future issues will be devoted to one subject each-The Lay Apostolate (in November), Christian Abnormal Psychology (January), Protestantism (February). Contributors, as in the first issue, will be little rather than big names. But many a subscriber will look forward most of all to more of Editor-Artist Willock's satirical drawings and the jingles they illustrate. Sample...
...before Terry and the Pirates-and the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate would be right in on it. Milton Caniff, Terry's creator, was going to abandon them for a $100,000-a-year job with Marshall Field; the News Syndicate would have to find a new artist capable of carrying on. Last week, a month before Caniff's contract ran out, the successor was announced...
...mustached, rosy-cheeked George Wunder, 33, formerly an obscure A.P. staff artist. Richard Clarke, executive editor of the Daily News, liked his trial strips best of the samples submitted. What Wunder does with Terry depends, in the beginning at least, on Milton Caniff. Says Clarke: "We've got to see where Caniff is going to wind up. We can't have a sharp break." Caniff had promised only one thing: not to kill off all his characters...
Chopin: Piano Music (Maryla Jonas; Columbia, 6 sides). Neat, womanly interpretations of mazurkas, nocturnes and waltzes by a Polish artist who zoomed to the top in two recitals (TIME, April 8). Performance: good...