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...camera looks at all this with a pleasing reticence instead of peering open-mouthed at people and events as movie cameras are often prone to do. It is aided by Dmitri Tionkin's dissonant musical background which somehow manages to underline rather than intrude...
Owlish, talented little Dmitri Shostakovich, who intimately knows that a Russian composer must sing in tune with the Communist Party's harmonic scheme, last week gave faithful praise to the blower of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest pitch pipe: Joseph Stalin himself...
...their titles, at least, most of the 220 new works in the 1949 output were clearly in tune. Dmitri Shostakovich, who once showed signs of becoming a great composer, had turned in a new oratorio, The Song of the Forests. It glorified Stalin's reforestation plan. Sample verse (by Poet Evgeny Dolmatovsky...
...Chinese might turn to a Titoism of their own. But on most other issues, the Yugoslavs lined up with the West. Last week, the U.S. announced that it would back the Yugoslavs for a seat on the Security Council against Czechoslovakia. The Yugoslavs, declared the Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky in a withering speech before the Assembly, were "bankrupt sharks...
Shostakovich: Trio in E Minor (Dmitri Shostakovich, piano; David Oistrakh, violin; Milos Sadlo, cello; Mercury, 6 sides). Recorded at the Prague Music Festival three years ago, this album is more notable for its musicians than for its sometimes gay, sometimes depressing music. Recording: good...