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...gets its performance under "Gone With the Wind" length, the German producers of "The Brothers Karamazov" are forced to omit huge chunks of plot. The entire tale of Aliosha, dreamy near-mystic and perhaps the hero of the novel, is scrapped to make way for the study of Dmitri Karamazov, his love Grushenka, and the intricacies of another brutal murder. The German production is good so far as it goes, but Dostoevsky fans will weep at the wholesale butchery of the novel. Anna Sten, as the seductive Grushenka, contributes a fine performance...
...Dmitri Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 10 sides). Most popular of Fire Warden Shostakovich's big, embattled symphonies, the Fifth has already been recorded by Stokowski and the Philadelphians for Victor. The Clevelanders do a brilliant job, but Stokowski's recording is still tops...
Hollywood has done an excellent job of editing and compiling the individual seenes of the Russian photographers. It has added an effective, if not overly original, musical score by Dmitri Tiomkin, and a restrained commentary by Albert Malty, read by Edward G. Robinson...
...great event had happened at last. In Manhattan last week Conductor Toscanini led the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the first U.S. performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's long-heralded Seventh Symphony, composed during the Nazi siege of Leningrad...
Yesterday's radio performance of Dmitri Shostakovitch's Seventh Symphony had every prospect of being one of the greatest occasions in musical history. The composer was considered the best living symphonist, the orchestra was first-rate, the conductor Toscanini, and the audience immense. With Germany and Russia locked in a death-grip from Leningrad to the Black Sea, and the music fresh from the pen of Russia's Composer Laureate, the event had tremendous news value...