Word: shostakovich
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...Soviet composers Khachaturian, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Miaskovshy begged a New York court to cut their music from the sound track: it might make them look like traitors at home, their lawyers argued...
...meeting called by the Central Committee, Shostakovich and Khachaturian (among others) had dutifully flayed themselves. But Izvestia hadn't found the act convincing. They admitted their mistakes, said Izvestia, but "their halfway, insufficiently self-critical statements naturally did not satisfy." There was nothing halfway in what the Politburo's Andrei Zhdanov told them...
...week's end, the New York Times reported from Paris that Shostakovich had been dismissed from the Moscow Conservatory faculty, Khachaturian had been fired from his influential post in the Union of Soviet Composers...
...week's end, myopic little Dmitri Shostakovich marched to the platform. He knew his lines well: he had been bawled out before. Said he: "I accept the Central Committee's decree, particularly regarding myself, as stern but fatherly care. ... A worthy reply . . . may be achieved by work-stubborn, creative, joyous work ... on new compositions which will find a path to the heart of the Soviet people." Shostakovich was the last to recant; now all Soviet composers could go on with their joyous labors...