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...propaganda line switched: the old Marxist slogans were dropped, the emphasis was on national patriotism. "Let the manly images of our great ancestors-Alexander Nevsky, Dimitri Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov, and Mikhail Kutuzov-inspire you!" exhorted Stalin. At this point the cruel, cumbersome five-year industrialization plans paid off. During the long winter of 1941-42, guns, tanks and planes came rolling out of the Ural factories, to be supplemented later by a stream of armaments from the U.S. and Britain. To a U.S. visitor who explained that strikes were holding up U.S. war production, Stalin snapped...
...when possible, go to the mountains in summer. But he does not expect to have a vacation until 1954. He will take the Boston Symphony into Manhattan's Carnegie Hall this week. Then comes a stint with Toscanini's NBC Symphony, followed by four weeks with Dimitri Mitropoulos' New York Philharmonic-Symphony. On his spring & summer conducting schedule: London and Salzburg...
Hubie Maguire looks like he may stage a comeback in the mile, but he is relatively unsupported. He ran 4:28 as a freshman, but was slowed down by leg injuries last year. Along with him will be the inexperienced Al Blaylock and Dimitri Nabakov...
...Dimitri Mitropoulos, the strong-minded conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, has become the hero of Manhattan's modernists and the bane of its musical conservatives. In four years, he has introduced new symphonic works by such radicals as Schoenberg, Schnabel and Sessions, and such theater works (in concert form) as Busoni's Arlecchino and Berg's Wozzeck. Last week he was at it again: he conducted the first U.S. performance of Darius Milhaud's opera Christopher Columbus...
Bruch: G Minor Concerto (Zino Francescatti; Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos; Columbia). Every violinist gets around to this one sooner or later; Francescatti warms it up with Latin fire. Jascha Heifetz also plays it (for Victor) with simon-pure tone and biting emphasis, but his interpretation is icy cold...