Word: shostakovich
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...Sibelius told me he listens frequently to the radio and so keeps in touch with current music. 'I heard the Leningrad Symphony and I feel Shostakovich has very great talent,' he said...
...ceiling and a set of acoustical gadgets. The improvements left Conductor Toscanini (who had always kicked about the acoustics of Studio 8-H him self) biting his nails. Stokowski got a counterpunch in 1942 when he went east from California to make a bid for the U.S. premiere of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, and found that Toscanini had snatched it from under his nose. Last week's announcement solemnly promulgated the theory that it is undesirable for the NBC Symphony to divide its season between two conductors of such widely differing methods. (It noted no objection, however...
...pants will hereafter be taken off all ... pigeons" - a phrase which I interpreted as an assurance that adjectives, etc. would henceforth be safely attached to their logical noun or pronoun. However, by March 6, this masterpiece had been passed into print: "Sitting stiffly, but beautiful in tails . . . were Dmitri Shostakovich and his wife...
Back in Moscow, Musfund's board of directors, hearing of the U.S. reception, congratulated Shostakovich on his sales appeal...
When it was over some critics, as often, felt that Shostakovich was the most impressive of a generation of unimpressive symphonists. His detractors, as often, found him a pretentious musical rhetorician. A statement by Shostakovich declared that the symphony sought to express Soviet Russia's new optimism, and "the spirit of the new Red Army as it takes the offensive after discouraging retreat...