Word: dmitry
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month salary, the Illinois Symphony actually began to pile up a profit at the box office. The size of this profit put it in a different class from most other WPA orchestras, enabled it to pay the high performance royalties asked by such ace contemporary composers as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff, Paul Hindemith, Jean Sibelius...
Married. Her Serene Highness, Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya (née Audrey Emery), 35, daughter of Cincinnati's multimillionaire Leather Tycoon John Josiah Emery, divorced wife of Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia (co-assassin of Rasputin); and Prince Dimitri ("Mito") Djordjadze, Georgian prince and racing motorist; in Maidstone, England...
...Dmitri Mitropoulos (Sat. 9 p. m. NBC-Red). Minneapolis Symphony's able conductor-composer guest conducts NBC Symphony...
...before the promised new era was well launched in Europe, musical modernism was in trouble with the dictators, who objected to it as: 1) extreme individualism, 2) an unsettling symptom of unrest. In 1936 Soviet Russia joined the procession, banning as "leftist" the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, and declaring that the "formalistic ideas" of modernistic music were "founded on bourgeois musical conceptions" (TIME...
...after Composer Piston's symphony had its première, a much more widely heralded piece of music was broadcast by the NBC Symphony under Conductor Artur Rodzinski: Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Composer of the famed opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk and onetime white-haired boy of Soviet music, Shostakovich had lain for two years in official outer darkness, his opera banned and his Fourth Symphony confiscated because of "Leftist" modernistic tendencies (TIME, April 4). First of his works to be O. K.'d by Moscow critics since his downfall, the Fifth Symphony...