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...summer cottages have made a good thing of renting them for a few weeks or a few weekends. Since every Communist schoolboy knows that Marx and Lenin eliminated landlords as well as all other bloodsucking capitalists, this could not go on. Last week the city fathers of Leningrad decreed that anyone caught renting out his dacha would have his city quarters confiscated...
...something special about them. The Russians were swept away by the Philadelphia's sheer lush quality, while the Americans, who scheduled twelve jumbo-sized concerts in 13 days, were nearly swept away by the effort of putting them on night after night. Ahead lay four more performances in Leningrad before the Philadelphia moved on to Scandinavia, Poland and Western Europe, winding up its 14-nation tour next month at the Brussels World's Fair...
...voice, he dominated the stage. After his Act II aria, Cortigiani "oil razza, reported the New York Times's Howard Taubman, the Russians stopped the show with a spontaneous outburst. At the final curtain, they gave him a standing ovation. Warren is scheduled to appear in recitals in Leningrad, to do Rigoletto in Kiev, and to sing lago in Otello in Riga. He has already left a lasting memento of his visit: the Russians have copied the sheet music of one of his most popular recital numbers: Colorado Trail...
Voronov, who said many parts of Boston reminded him of Leningrad, is vice-editor of Komsomolskaya Pravada, a daily youth newspaper with a circulation of 2.6 million. He answered most of the questions for the group. Vitaly Botko and Vladlen Troshkin, the only two who are not members of the Communist Party, were generally silent...
Tears. Politically uncalculating, Van pleased his hosts by doing what comes naturally. He never played fewer than five encores; he sat down at a piano everywhere and at the slightest provocation any hour of the day or night. He insisted on playing the whole of his Leningrad program at a rehearsal several hours before the evening concert for the benefit of conservatory students unable to buy tickets. When he visited Tchaikovsky's grave in Leningrad, he delighted his guides by taking some Russian earth back with him, plans to use it to plant a Russian lilac cutting at Rachmaninoff...