Word: glavmus
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Russia's music is systematically organized-from the mightiest flames of Russian creative inspiration down to the lowliest tuba spit valve. A Soviet bureau called Glavnoe Musicalno Pravelenya (Glavmus for short) spends over 6,000,000 rubles a year ($1,200,000) keeping Soviet composers well-fed and commissioning them to write operas and symphnies. It even runs a "composers' country house" at Ivanovo, about 100 kilometers from Moscow, where all good Russian composers go in the summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces...
...Soviet Russia's bright new music, for all its brilliant streamlining, has conspicuously lacked the heartwarming, human quality - the "humanistic sympathy" so despised by Communists -that earns great symphonies and operas the love of succeeding generations. But the commissars of Glavmus, looking west ward, can well ask where better symphonies and operas are being written today...
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