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...opening of Prague's International Music Festival, music-loving Czechs got an impressive answer to a question they had been asking for a year: Whom will the Russians send? The answer came in a red-starred C-47 direct from Moscow: Russia had sent thin, 40-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the world's five greatest living composers...
...recording debut with Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite (Asch, 5 sides). Although it has little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian ballroom makes smooth and pleasant listening. Dmitri Kabalevsky, another Soviet up-&-comer, gets a single side in the album with a galloping Fete Populaire. Both performances are excellent...
...section on Arts & Letters came the suggestion that Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich be invited to explain his "ideology" to a congress of creative artists...
Sneered the Soviet news agency, Tass: "[New York papers] seek to present the attack as usual for the New York way of life. However . . . the attempt was of a political character. . . ." Snarled Ukrainian Chief Delegate Dmitri Manuilsky: "Political banditry. . . . If the authorities cannot protect us, either it will be necessary to have our own agents . . . or maybe to pay income tax to somebody like Al Capone for protection. . . ." In a bristly letter to Secretary of State Byrnes, Manuilsky charged a "premeditated attempt" on the two men's lives...
Uruguay and New Zealand (Roberto MacEachen and Sir Carl Berendsen) tried to escape from the room, were testily waved back to their seats by the Chair (Paul-Henri Spaak). The Ukraine (Dmitri Manuilsky) prodded sarcastically: "Who is to decide which are the 'great classics of human thought?' Human thought has taken some very capricious turns at times! Very capricious. ..." (Lebanon's own uncapricious selections: Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, Leibnitz, Pascal, Descartes, Kant, Averroes.*) The matter was referred to the Assembly, to be referred back to a committee...