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...symphonist, Dmitri Shostakovich was now up to Beethoven-in quantity.* Last week his new Ninth Symphony was tried out in Moscow, in the manner the U.S.S.R. now decrees: at a private hearing of musicians...
This afternoon the Glee Club will travel to New York to give a repeat performance of Randall Thompson's "Testament of Freedom" at Carnegie Hall tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Also included on the program, which was first performed at Symphony Hall in Boston, will be Dmitri Shostakovich's Eight Symphony...
More lenient, Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu and Italian modernist Composer Vittorio Rieti hedged. So did Austrian Composer Ernst Krenek, who philosophically noted that the great 16th-Century Italian Composer Palestrina "collaborated" with the Pope and the Council of Trent, and that Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is unquestionably "collaborating" with Joseph Stalin. Concluded he: "Anyone called upon for advice will have to search his conscience: does he wish to lend his hand to the political game, or does he prefer to live by the word of the Gospel: 'Judge not, that ye be not judged...
...Dmitri Christov, Grabowsky's successor as Minister of the Interior, did not even get into Turkey. When the Turks refused to let him cross the frontier, Ex-minister Christov killed himself...
...Sunday and the sun was hot. The Polish girls wore their best embroidered dresses to Mass and the men of Lublin chatted on street corners without a furtive, over-the-shoulder look. We drove out along the Chelm road about a mile from town. Dmitri Kudriavtsev, Secretary of the Soviet Atrocities Commission, said: "They called this 'the road of death.' " Kudriavtsev is a short man, with curly hair and a nice face. He has an even, soft way of talking. You could not guess that he has pored over more horrors in the past three years than any living...