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Communist Party bigwigs in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater beamed at each other in open, reassured relief. Their smiles said: "Ah, now we've got it too." But Molotov's words, obviously intended for home consumption, seemed to strike some U.S. editors all of a heap. They splashed Molotov's boast with big black headlines usually reserved for major catastrophes...
...served his state well, and has been well served by it. Among his compositions is a Poem on Stalin. His pretty wife, Nina V. Makarova, who was a student of Miaskovsky's too, has written A Cantata for Molotov. She is working on an opera, ordered by the Bolshoi Theater, based on a story of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a girl-Partisan heroine who was executed by the Nazis. Aram has won the Order of Lenin and two Stalin prizes (the last for his swirling, furiously rhythmic ballet, Gayane, a U.S. best-seller). He made a big hit with the Russian...
...Face. Last week, Moscow was barely recognizable even to those who knew it well. It seemed as though the entire Cosmetics Trust of the U.S.S.R. had gone to work, covering Moscow's wrinkled face with layers of magic makeup. Almost overnight the Bolshoi Theater turned a shade of blushing pink; other buildings were newly yellow, light green and blue. Reported a visitor: "It looks like an explosion in a paint factory...
...Russia's most famed, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. And it was the first production of it in Moscow in twelve years: it was too expensive, too big and too lavish to produce often, particularly during wartime austerity. But when the Bolshoi Theater a year ago decided to revive it, the Soviet Government didn't spare the rubles. Early last year Producer L. Baratov assembled his huge cast, began lecturing them on the history and customs of the period (1598-1605). They toured the Kremlin, the Historical Museum and the Novo-Devichi and Donskoi monasteries to absorb...
Last week, Moscow operagoers were seeing a performance of Boris that justified its labor pains. A chorus of 180 voices rocketed Mussorgsky's somber music to the gilded ceiling of the huge red & gold Bolshoi Theater. A whole class of children from the Bolshoi ballet school, as well as a large company of nonsinging extras, filled out the stage. Standout scene: the coronation, full of massive bells, the swelling crescendos of the huge orchestra and blazing pageantry...