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Serge Koussevitzky, famed Russian-born conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, received a touching "Bravo!" Wrote his 80-year-old sister Anyuta, from Russia: "Brother Serezha! Our family has had plenty of trouble. Our dear [brother] Nicholas perished in Leningrad in 1941 at the hands of the Fascist butchers. Only thou and I are left, my beloved brother. ... I have heard that thou, with thy work, also art helping our common cause, the destruction of our common enemy. . . . All my life I have been proud of thee and I shall be proud of thee until my last days...
Commemorating these achievements, the Council of Peoples Commissars last week directed: 1) publication of a new complete edition of Rimsky-Korsakov's work; 2) erection of his statue in Leningrad; 3 ) renaming the Leningrad Conservatory in his honor; 4) reopening the Rimsky-Korsakov Museum in Tikhvin where he was born; 5) establishment of eight "Rimsky-Korsakov" scholarships for young Soviet composers; 6) designation of his library and archives as State treasures; 7) sponsorship of a Soviet film based on his life; 8) establishment of lifelong pensions for his two sons and daughter (500 rubles a month) and granddaughter...
...came to Russia. For five months the Germans moved with wondrous speed and dazzling power. Stubborn Voronov stuck to his artillery. There came a time when the Wehrmacht's great blitzkrieg machine stood at the gates of Leningrad, Stalingrad, the Caucasus. Voronov still stuck to his artillery...
...Stalingrad came other triumphs. At Kursk last summer Hitler made his final, desperate attempt to win in Russia. Voronov's cannon mauled many hundreds of the thick-skinned, monstrous "Tigers" (60-ton Mark VI tanks) and "Ferdinands" (70-ton self-propelled guns), crushed Hitler's hopes. At Leningrad, two months ago, Voronov's guns reduced to rubble one of the Wehrmacht's most powerful defense systems...
Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Kostelanetz made his professional debut as a concert pianist at the age of eight, and won his first major conducting assignment as Conductor of the Petrograd Grand Opera Orchestra when 19. He came to this country in 1927, and in 1930 was made conductor of one of the symphony orchestras of the Columbia Broadcasting System...