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...This is one of Shostakovich's most profound works. It is filled with optimism, affirmation of life, and trust in man's inexhaustible strength." So said Tikhon Khrennikov, head of the Soviet Composers Union, last January after the Moscow premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's Symphony...
Last week Steinberg led the orchestra through a program of Shostakovich and Mozart that, besides being musically rewarding, demonstrated that the auditorium is an acoustical gem. Heinz Hall has what is called a good throw. Its sound reaches the audience in smooth, vibrant, evenly distributed waves. German Acoustician Heinrich Keilholz removed a lot of old velvet, surrounded the stage with reflector panels (removable for opera and ballet), then hung a larger, fan-shaped reflector out over the main floor. "In the old days," says Steinberg, "Pittsburghers had no way of telling what their orchestra really sounded like. To find...
...Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Seraphim). The frisky First Concerto, written when Shostakovich was 27, remains one of his most disarming works-especially when he plays it himself, as in these performances recorded...
...have been published for the centenary. Throughout the Soviet Union, bookshops are crammed with such works as Lenin and Modern Statistics (in three volumes) and Lenin and Philosophical Questions of Relative Physics. For foreign consumption the 55-volume "Complete Works" has been translated into English, French and Finnish. Dmitry Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian have composed new works to Lenin's memory, and six Soviet movie companies have made no fewer than 14 feature films about Lenin in the past six years. Factories, store windows and hotel lobbies are festooned with his picture, always in the inevitable heroic poses: addressing...
...treated with lavish care by Conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Capacity audiences first in Philadelphia, then last week in Manhattan, roared approval of Shostakovich's grim, powerful music and offered special bravos to Ormandy and the black, Slavic sound of Finnish Baritone Tom Krause...