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NICKEL MISERIES (210 pp.)-Ivan Gold -Viking...
None of the eight works departed far from conventional practices--as is advisable for most student composition. The most clearly unorthodox technique was the instrumentation of flute, clarinet, piano and percussion in the Cadenzas in Transition of Ivan Tcherepnin...
...Were Boris. Just as Hines was preening over that, the Paris press was proclaiming a Soviet basso, Ivan Petrov, as the world's greatest Boris. Petrov came to town with 40 Ibs. of jeweled costumes and the rank of "Artist of the Soviet People." His Boris is ideologically and politically rehabilitated: "He is touched by the misery of the Russian people he tried to help," Petrov says. In Paris, Petrov brought a bouquet of flowers to Chaliapin's grave in the Batignolles Cemetery, then disclaimed the master's influence with a fashionable Russian proverb: "Better...
...lucid, and should be see. Welles is certainly one of the finest contemporary directors; his camera work makes the French "nouvelle vague" group look amateurish. One particularly effective scene shows the grandeur of a penitentes procession in Barcelona. The black-robed figures passing in torchlight surpass the processions in Ivan the Terrible, for Welles is always free of the episodic tableau photography that marred Eisenstein's films...
Last November the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir caused quite a stir by publishing One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch the first novel of an obscure mathematics teacher and former Red Army officer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Released with the express permission of Premier Khrushchev, One Day is a powerful, often humorous account of life in Stalin's forced labor camps. Translator Max Hayward, among others, hailed the novel as a "literary masterpiece" when it was published in the West several months later...