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...Shostakovich: Quartet, Op. 49 (Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia; 4 sides). Like Shostakovich's 8th Symphony, written at about the same date, this quartet bristles with crackling rhythms and ingratiating tunes...
...published a magazine called Modern Music, propagandized among conductors and opera houses. The league's audiences sometimes hissed; music critics usually snorted. But not all of the league's musical bombshells were duds. It introduced U.S. listeners to the phenomenal Russian talents of Serge Prokofieff and Dmitri Shostakovich. It gave the U.S. ballet première of Igor Stravinsky's brilliant Le Sacre du Printemps...
Three war movies were shown at the rally "Diary of a Polish Airman", "Listen to Britain", and "Five Men of Vellish", and a special United Nation Song, written by Dmitri Shostakovich was sung for the first time. A resolution was accepted by the audience to the effect that the report on Harvard's sale of bonds and war activities was extremely discouraging, and that greater effort towards a common action be made...
...Dmitri Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 10 sides). Most popular of Fire Warden Shostakovich's big, embattled symphonies, the Fifth has already been recorded by Stokowski and the Philadelphians for Victor. The Clevelanders do a brilliant job, but Stokowski's recording is still tops...
Still unruffled, Stokowski got down to the main business of the evening, Shostakovich's 80-minute masterwork. Discreetly Conductor Stokowski had cut the symphony's tortuous length by nearly half, but as he boomed and rattled into the home stretch of the first movement the audience shuffled and groaned impatiently, electricians began jabbering over their microphones, newsreel men noisily ground their cameras. Suddenly Stokowski stopped the orchestra. Said he: "Men, there is a little more of this symphony to play. I do not know whether you want to hear it and it does not matter...