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...Died. Dmitri Merejkowski, 76, Russian historical novelist, biographer (The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci), Christian mystic; in Paris...
Shock-haired, bespectacled Dmitri Shostakovich, No. 1 Soviet composer, joined Leningrad's defenders digging trenches. Said he: "I am also writing my seventh symphony. It will attempt to depict the Battle of Leningrad and tell the story of the city's Home Guards." Last great Russian battle piece: Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow...
...Smefona, self-exiled President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone in close order drill and calisthenics, won a promotion to corporal. / / Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) went to work in Leningrad as a fire fighter. / / The public library of Southport, England, threw out 90 books by P. G. Wodehouse, termed them "waste paper." / / Wandering Ex-King Carol of Rumania showed signs of settling down: he bought two automobiles, leased for three...
...International Brigades of the Loyalists. Singer van der Schelling is backed by an "Exiles Chorus" directed by Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans). Some of the songs-the Spanish Joven Guardia, the Italian Guardia Rossa, the German Thaelmann-Bataillon, the French Au Devant de la Vie (music by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich)-were composed during the Spanish War. Most of them are in rough, plodding march time. The one which gives the album its name was composed by a German, Eberhard Schmitt, in the camp at Gurs. Its chorus, translated (not quite so lame in the original...
Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant (Joanna Graudan, pianist, with the Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Dmitri Mitropoulos; Columbia; 3 sides; $2.50). Pre-Victorian showpiece, faded but not without charm, brilliantly played by the Latvian-born wife of the orchestra's first cellist. On the fourth side, an elegant minuet from Lully's The Temple of Peace...