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This Sunday, a special NBC Symphony broadcast (4:15 to 6 p.m. E.W.T.) will give the Western Hemisphere its first chance to hear what Shostakovich's Marxist muse, now 25 years older, has to say in his Seventh Symphony,* his biggest, most ambitious orchestral work to date-the work that he wrote last year between tours of duty digging trenches in the outskirts of Leningrad and fire-watching on the roof of the Conservatory...
Died. "Commodore" Basil Muse Hatfield, 70, Van Winkle-bearded "First Admiral of the Trinity, Master of the Marshes, First Lord of the Swamps"; in Liberty, Tex. He was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senator in 1941. His platform: a five-ocean navy...
...definitely worth seeing, if only to determine just how far the comic muse can tickle you. You'll wince at one or two moments, but have a delightful time and then come out wondering just why you laughed so hard. And, oh, yes, a quick glance at any reputable time-table will help you skip the second feature, something incredible...
...Schoenberg's music to Albert Girand's fantastical poems entitled Pierre Lunaire is the last word in cacophony and musical anarchy. Some day it may be pointed out as of historical interest, because it represents the turning point, for the outraged muse surely can endure no more of this. Such noise must drive even the moonstruck Pierrot back to the realm of real music. Albertine Zehme . . . repeated the poems while a musical, or rather, unmusical ensemble . . . discoursed the most car splitting combination of tones ever to desecrate the walls of a Berlin music hall...
...first seven days were days of mystery. Citizens of the outside world could only ponder the oddities of totalitarian propaganda; look at German pictures of happy byplay in captured villages; muse on Russian geography-Dvinsk here, Pinsk there, Minsk in between; and take their pick between diametric optimism...