Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dmitri Shostakovich started making himself understood in 1926, when, in contrast to much modern music that sounded merely disillusioned, cynical and ugly, young Shostakovich's First Symphony spoke up brightly with gusty tunes and youthful zest. This month, phonograph record shops all over the U.S. put on display two outstanding albums of the premier Russian musician: his Symphony No. 6 (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 9 sides); his Piano Quintet (Vivian Rivkin and Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia; 8 sides...
...rational mind said to his whirling senses, "make the dean's list," and again the walls indicated their agreement, this time audibly, with a long, low grunt of assent. "And therefore," pursued his mind, encouraged by this moral support which encompassed him, "there is no need for this display of emotion, or rather of complete lack of self restraint...
...exhibition of paintings by leading modern European artists will open today in the Graduate School of Design, Robinson Hall. The display, assembled by New York's Museum of Modern Art, will continue daily and Sunday through February 10. Included are paintings by Cezanne, Redon, Braque, Kice...
Also shown in the display are examples of ornamental design in graphic art, a collection of silver by English eighteenth century silversmiths, early Islamic illuminations and paintings, in Krubbings of Cambodian relief sculptures, and a series of X-ray shadow-graphs, as a means of identifying painters' styles...
Pictures of warriors, head-dresses, and charging knights mark the relief sculptures of Cambodia, which are on display for the month of January. All the other items will, be shown for two months, January and February...