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TIME'S piece on Dmitri Shostakovich [TIME, June 9] dogmatically names him "one of the five greatest living composers (the others: Sergei Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius...
...Shostakovich belongs among the "big five," how about Hindemith, Milhaud, Vaughan Williams, Ives and half a dozen others...
...imagination in Berlioz' vein can be confused with eloquence, Shostakovich is an eloquent composer-eloquent perhaps in the manner of the political orator, of the haranguer of the masses, which, indeed, for him seems to be a desirable aim."-Adolfo Salazar, Music in Our Time...
...depth of great art does not exist for one moment in the work of Shostakovich, only the spirit, the colored robe and the sparkling flexibility of virtuosity." - Max Graf, Modern Music...
When it came to discussing his own music, Composer Shostakovich still seemed shaken and bewildered by the public recanting he had recently made for the sins of his Ninth Symphony, which was condemned in Russia as lacking in "ideological conviction." His words sounded as if they had rolled out of a player piano. Said he: "Some people write music for their own pleasure, but I don't. I write to serve the nation. The Soviet composer must serve the people; there must be no intrusion of the personal element in his approach. . . . Everything is bad music that...