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Among the scorched was Sergei Prokofiev, whom many regard as the world's greatest living composer, much of whose music, including his Fifth Symphony, has been heard in the U.S. Two more of world renown were Dmitri Shostakovich (Seventh Symphony), and Aram Khachaturian (whose Saber Dance is a current U.S. jukebox sensation...
...Shostakovich it was a second fiery purification. In 1936, his clangorous Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk offended Stalin's ever-pricked ears, and the Pravda denunciation that followed kept Shostakovich under a cloud for five years. But this time the guilty composers did not need to suffer so prolonged a darkness. The road to quick redemption had been charted by another great Soviet artist, Cinema Director Sergei Eisenstein. Several times damned for deviation (notably for Ivan the Terrible), he always recanted, begged forgiveness, and put a little more pig iron in his next picture...
...phone rang in the Chicago Symphony's office, and a familiar voice spoke all-too-familiar words: "Dr. Rodzinski cannot conduct rehearsal today." Assistant Conductor Tauno Hannikainen was hurriedly called in. He had just 24 hours to rehearse with the soloist (Pianist Myra Hess) and to start learning Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Several hours later, the phone rang again; once again it was Mrs. Rodzinski on the line: "Dr. Rodzinski is better; he will conduct the Shostakovich; Hannikainen can conduct the rest." But the orchestra's trustees had already heard enough. Midway through the concert next...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Eugene Ormandy salutes the Russians: Khachaturian's Three Dances, from Gayane; Shostakovich's Symphony...
...taking in Red Square, he could move about with comparative freedom-and did so. He visited markets (where potatoes were selling for 56 cents a pound) and department stores (where "a pair of shoes was priced at $125"), dropped in on a musicale which turned out to be Dmitri Shostakovich at the piano with his own string quartet, saw a "three-dimensional" movie of Robinson Crusoe, prowled side streets and alleyways...