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Last week these issues once again came to the fore when the Second Congress of the Union of Soviet Composers convened in Moscow. Zhdanov, dead these nine years, still made his presence felt. His line was upheld by the secretary-general of the Composers' Union, Tikhon Khrennikov. a writer of popular war songs and operas praising broad-backed worker heroes. He set the keynote with an attack on "formless and harmful modernism," roasted Russia's great expatriate, Igor Stravinsky, as an example of a composer who writes for the elite, not the masses...
Last week the big guns of the Soviet Composers' Union boomed into the act. Secretary-General Tikhon Khrennikov pointed out meaningly that both Dmitri...
...Aram Khachaturian, in his score for a film on Lenin, had managed to "reorganize" themselves. Other composers had begun "to rebuild their work," although "the process of their reconstruction proceeds slowly." But Prokofiev's work still smelled of the "marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture." Said Khrennikov: Prokofiev obviously had not "drawn the necessary conclusions from the decree of the Central Committee...