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...propaganda potato had been tossed to Secretary of State Acheson; it was either keep it and get burned, or toss it back. He cupped it gingerly in his hands, and heaved it back. Twenty-two Soviet bloc citizens, including top Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, had applied to visit the U.S. They would be chief exhibits at a "cultural and scientific conference for world peace" this week in Manhattan...
Kabalevslcy: Sonata No. 3, Opus 46 (Vladimir Horowitz, piano; Victor, 4 sides). Contemporary Soviet Composer Dmitri Kabalevsky's melodic, if Mussorgsky-ish, piece is more Pianist Horowitz' meat than the Mozart Sonata in F Major, K. 332, also available this month. Both recordings: good...
Four stay-at-home Russian composers -Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian and Nicolas Miaskovsky-also had a bad day in court last week. They had demanded an injunction against 20th Century-Fox for using snatches of their music in The Iron Curtain (exposing the Soviet spy ring in Canada). Said the four: using their music that way might give somebody the idea they were disloyal to their country. A lower court had already refused the injunction. Last week, the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division turned it down...
Last week the big guns of the Soviet Composers' Union boomed into the act. Secretary-General Tikhon Khrennikov pointed out meaningly that both Dmitri...
Science seems to have been skeptical. Then Lawrence wrote to say that he had decided to emigrate to Florida, with his wife and "several young people," including his Armenian disciple, Dmitri Kouyoumdjian, to "start a new life in a new spirit. Won't you come . . . too?" he begged, "& be president of us?" But Bertie apparently wouldn't budge; and the British government refused Lawrence a passport. Disciple Kouyoumdjian was also a disappointment: he changed both his mind and his name, stayed on in England and became "Michael Arlen" of a bestseller called The Green...