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...buzz of anticipation in the Berkshires. Six thousand musical pilgrims, who had bought their tickets weeks in advance, sat shivering in Tanglewood's Music Shed. Outside, in the chilly evening, another 2,000 huddled in the dew-covered grass. They were gathered to hear the U.S. premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's new Ninth Symphony...
Next week, Tanglewood and its neighboring villages of Lenox and Stockbridge will be crammed with visitors anxious to hear what the rehearsing was about. They will hear the 110-man Boston Symphony Orchestra in nine concerts. U.S. premieres: Dmitri Shostakovich's new and brief (25-minute) Ninth Symphony, which Koussevitzky enthusiastically describes as "absolutely classic in form until sometimes it is very near to Haydn," and Peter Grimes, a widely touted opera in English by England's Benjamin Britten, commissioned by Koussevitzky and first played in London in 1945. The student production will be conducted by Leonard Bernstein...
Blond, 200-lb. Russian Ambassador Dmitri Alexandrovich Zhukov, who had chartered a DC-4 in Newark last week and had flown down with his wife and two children, seemed more embarrassed than pleased by the flamboyant reception. He hastily denied a local Communist boast that he was Marshal Georgi Zhukov's nephew, said he merely shared the same name-"just as Fernandez is the name of your Foreign Minister and also that of a prize fighter, Antonio Fernández...
...played from the Tchaikovsky concerto, Stalin jumped up to propose a toast in vodka, and List had a chance to talk to him. "I said 'I like Tchaikovsky,' and he said, 'Good, I do too.' I said, 'I played the first American performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto in 1934,' and Stalin said 'Good.' " Winston Churchill requested Missouri Waltz, and "fortunately, I knew the tune." At another dinner Truman turned the pages while List played Chopin. An hour of piano playing was all Churchill's ears could stand. List...
Prokofiev is the greatest musician today! Nobody else can write with such technical perfection, with such instrumentation. And all the time there is beautiful melody ! " Peter and the Wolves. Not all Boston's music-goers share Koussevitsky's enthusi asm for his fellow Russians - Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich - but they respect his judgment. Koussevitsky rates 39-year-old Shostakovich as a great-composer-to-be and 54-year-old Prokofiev as a great composer who has already arrived...