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None was awaited with more interest than the new overture by brilliant young Aram Khachaturian, 43, which will have its premiere in Leningrad during the celebrations. He had scored it for 110 pieces, including a pipe organ and 18 trumpets. Said he: "It has no literary program-it is pure music." Then he hastily added: "But it has ideas . . . the legitimate feeling of pride and rejoicing for our nation's victory over the German invaders and the social significance of the 30th anniversary of the revolution...
Commissar's Delight. Composer Khachaturian's music is the kind that goes over well with commissars-because it also goes over well with the crowds. It has, like Tchaikovsky's music, melody, bounce and color-and basically banal themes. Khachaturian's life in a bureaucracy is therefore not as complicated as that of his musical betters, Prokofiev, the sophisticated ex-exile, or jittery Dmitri Shostakovich, whose musical talents are wrenched by ideology. In the most recent sampling of Russian musical tastes, Khachaturian works proved to be the second most frequently performed in the U.S.S.R. (first, Prokofiev...
...musician. In three years he learned to scrub passably on the cello, studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Miaskovsky, who had been a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. When Aram graduated in 1933, his name was carved on a marble panel, an honor reserved for star pupils. Khachaturian still draws heavily on his native Armenian and Georgian folk themes and rhythms for his symphonies and concertos, and on Ravel and Stravinsky, among others, for his handling of them. The three living composers he admires most are Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. (Russian expatriate Stravinsky, now a U.S. citizen, has been denounced...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Milton Katims conducting Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Turina's La Oración del Torero, Khachaturian's Suite from Gayane...
...depends on the red & green lights of the script. Four years ago, tired of stop-&-start performances, a group of Hollywood's best studio musicians organized their own symphony orchestra. Last week, their Santa Monica Civic Symphony Orchestra, with Jacques Rachmilovich conducting, made its recording debut with Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite (Asch, 5 sides). Although it has little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian ballroom makes smooth and pleasant listening. Dmitri Kabalevsky, another Soviet up-&-comer, gets...