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...Lesson for Paris. While the conference stumbled on, Moscow's social life tripped on too. At one event (Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theater), Western observers noted an unfamiliar Russian folkway. As Molotov entered the Ministers' box, the audience began to applaud stormily; according to a fashion set by Stalin some years ago, Molotov applauded back. This went on for five minutes. Belle of the occasion was Mme. Bidault, in a grey chiffon Parisian evening gown that made Mme. Molotov look like a right-wing deviationist...
Chamber Music: Mozart's Quintet in C (K. 515), by the Budapest String Quartet and Milton Katims (Columbia). Best single record: Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes, by the William Nowinski Sextet (Disc...
...took Paris, she fled to the U.S. For nearly two years New York considered her just another refugee. Then Toscanini signed her to sing Juliette in Berlioz's dramatic symphony Romeo et Juliette, and Stokowski chose her to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson wrote: "Miss Tourel's conquest . . . was . . . without any local parallel since Kirsten Flagstad's debut...
Inspiration for this Romeo & Juliet parody (by Sagittarius, Britain's shrewdest satirical versifier, in the New Statesman and Nation) was Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's five-day visit to Moscow, where, as part of his lavish entertainment, he was taken to a gala performance of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff was feted as few foreigners have been in Moscow. Well aware of the recent British drift, especially among left-wing Laborites, away from the U.S. and toward Russia, the Kremlin was trying its best to encourage the trend...
...Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). This is the first U.S. recording of Prokofiev's thundering new symphony, one of the major works of recent years. It is a compelling performance. Record buyers, however, may want to wait to compare it with Serge Kous-sevitzky's soon-due Victor version, since it was Koussevitzky who introduced the Fifth to the U.S. (TIME...