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Conditions for judging the Moscow players were not ideal: at the insistence of Impresario Sol Hurok, the Russians were offering a straight Tchaikovsky repertory during the first two weeks of their stay, with no other classics and no modern works. (Muttered Permanent Conductor Konstantin Ivanov, who wanted to play more Beethoven: "I suppose King Hurok knows best.") Under the 52-year-old Ivanov and 45-year-old Kiril Kondrashin. one of Russia's most active guest conductors, the 106-man Moscow symphony displayed some solid virtues and some marked weaknesses. The Russians attacked their Tchaikovsky less fiercely than many...
Kabalevsky's conducting stint last week was the high point for a touring musical contingent from Russia, including Composers Dmitry Shostakovich, Konstantin Dankevich, Tikhon Khrennikov, Fikret Amirov, and Music Critic Boris Yarustovsky. As they were on their previous stops-Washington,. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Louisville, Philadelphia, New York -the Russians were strenuously entertained in Boston. As usual, they gave no individual interviews, uttered polite platitudes about music. What distinguished the Boston visit was the obvious affection the visitors had for the Boston Symphony, the first U.S. orchestra to tour Russia (in 1956), and for its Russian-born or Russian...
Besides Shostakovich, who is acting as chairman, the Russian delegation includes composers Dmitri Kabalevsky, Tikhon Khrennikov, Konstantin Dankevich, Fikret Amirov, and music critic Boris Yarutovsky...
Precisely at 3 p.m. in a slate grey, glass-fronted, six-story building on Moscow's Pushkin Square, the subeditors and department heads of Izvestia (Information) trooped into the office of Editor in Chief Konstantin A. Gubin for the planyorka, or editorial conference. At the same time, 14 blocks north, Pavel A. Satyukov, editor in chief of Pravda (Truth), Moscow's other big morning paper, summoned the top members of his staff. There was no debate over policy. There was some debate about space allotments, e.g., between the Department of Propaganda and the Department of Soviet Constructions...
...Died. Konstantin Mikhailovich Bykov, 73, director of the I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology in Leningrad, who, following the lead of his teacher, Pavlov, rejected Freud as the key to understanding human behavior; in Leningrad...