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...League Album has already prompted Band members to cut two now records, although circulation of them must still remain very limited. At its Wednesday night rehearsal, the group transcribed the recent "Radcliffiana" medley, which is to be sold at the Annex with the 'Cliffe Choral Society on the illpover. Prokofiev's March from Opus 99 and Holst's "Suite for Band" will also be printed, but only for private distribution to members...
...Reds. Probably the only new opera of the season will be Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, which had its U.S. premiere at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Festival last year. A bigger and brighter premiere-that of Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace-had been promised, but postponed. Leftists scoffed at Manager Edward Johnson's explanation: that no adequate translation could be made in time. They hinted that the Met was showing its political bias. Actually, a translation had been made which pleased the Met, but was rejected by Russian officials in New York. A second...
This week will be the 30th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Russia's composers, who point for anniversaries like greeting-card manufacturers, were ready to supply loud and brave noises. Serge Prokofiev, Russia's best, had prepared a special Holiday Overture. Dmitri Kabalevsky worked on a new opera, The Indomitable, for Moscow's famed Stanislavsky Theater. All in all, the Union of Soviet Composers proudly reported, 1,000 compositions had been specially written for the anniversary...
...kind that goes over well with commissars-because it also goes over well with the crowds. It has, like Tchaikovsky's music, melody, bounce and color-and basically banal themes. Khachaturian's life in a bureaucracy is therefore not as complicated as that of his musical betters, Prokofiev, the sophisticated ex-exile, or jittery Dmitri Shostakovich, whose musical talents are wrenched by ideology. In the most recent sampling of Russian musical tastes, Khachaturian works proved to be the second most frequently performed in the U.S.S.R. (first, Prokofiev; third, Tchaikovsky...
...marble panel, an honor reserved for star pupils. Khachaturian still draws heavily on his native Armenian and Georgian folk themes and rhythms for his symphonies and concertos, and on Ravel and Stravinsky, among others, for his handling of them. The three living composers he admires most are Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. (Russian expatriate Stravinsky, now a U.S. citizen, has been denounced by Culture and Life as "a man without a fatherland...