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...member of the Council for Soviet-American Friendship, Marsalka recently extended an invitation to Dmitri Shostakovich to come to Yale for a "Peace Rally and Concert." Plans collapsed when university officials refused the use of a building for the rally and the State Department denied extension of the composer's visa...
...visiting Russian artists and scientists, and their American friends, wanted to take their Manhattan "peace" show on road tour. They had a cross-country junket all worked out, and a fine crowd-teasing routine: a little lulling piano music by their star performer, Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, accompanied by stirring oratory to prove that it was the U.S. and not Russia, which was the real threat to peace...
...most tragic visitor of the week was Russia's famed Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. He came to New York to attend the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace (see below). A symbol of the harshness of the police state, he spoke like a Communist politician and acted as though he were impelled by hidden clock work rather than the mind which had composed resounding music...
...Curtain countries of Europe. Their boss and director was ruddy, narrow-eyed Alexander Fadeev, political boss of Soviet writers, who is reputed to be an MVD official assigned to the part of an intellectual in search of peace. Their showpiece-and the only visitor of major stature-was Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. A shy, stiff-shouldered man with a pale, wide forehead, Shostakovich was painfully ill at ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech. He cringed visibly from the photographers' flashbulbs, mopped his brow, twiddled...
Liberal Union members sent Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovitch a telegram yesterday inviting him to speak in Cambridge on "Trends in Modern Music," Herbert S. Levine '50, HLU president, announced last night...