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That issue of TIME disappeared from my room in Leningrad's Hotel Europa on a recent tour through the U.S.S.R...
...embassy party next day, Janis improvised a little four-hand piano with President Kennedy's peripatetic press secretary, Pierre Salinger, then departed for Leningrad, where he was as enthusiastically received as he had been in Moscow. One fascinating rumor has it that he will team up with Bandleader Benny Goodman at month's end to give the first Russian performance by U.S. artists of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue...
Moscow, she observed, "isn't as sophisticated a city as, say, Leningrad, and I noticed that people wouldn't even applaud for a work by Bach." According to Pianist Starr, the jury distinguished "three distinct 'schools' of piano playing: American, French and Russian. And the thing that seemed to set the Americans apart was what they called 'overemotionalism...
...Moiseyev Company in 1958 (and again in 1961), the Beryozka Company in late 1958, the Bolshoi Ballet in 1959, the Georgian State Company in 1960, the Leningrad Kirov Ballet...
Kondratiev will probably be the only Leningrad professor to visit Harvard this year, Edward L. Pattullo, assistant dean of the Faculty, said yesterday. Pattullo said that Richard E. Pipes, associate professor of History, has written from Paris that he heard nothing about the exchange when he lectured at Leningrad in April...