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...most tragic visitor of the week was Russia's famed Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. He came to New York to attend the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace (see below). A symbol of the harshness of the police state, he spoke like a Communist politician and acted as though he were impelled by hidden clock work rather than the mind which had composed resounding music...
...countries of Europe. Their boss and director was ruddy, narrow-eyed Alexander Fadeev, political boss of Soviet writers, who is reputed to be an MVD official assigned to the part of an intellectual in search of peace. Their showpiece-and the only visitor of major stature-was Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. A shy, stiff-shouldered man with a pale, wide forehead, Shostakovich was painfully ill at ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech. He cringed visibly from the photographers' flashbulbs, mopped his brow, twiddled...
...Drati Shostakovich will not be allowed to speak on the grounds of Yale University, President Charles Seymour announced yesterday...
...Harvard the Liberal Union said last night it has not yet received any answer to its Sunday telegram to Shostakovich inviting him to speak here in April...
...week, listeners and critics were glad the composer had gone ahead. At times, the Fourth sounded as if it were about to sound like someone else; there were Stravinsky-like dissonances, used sparingly and for punctuation, in the opening of the rhythmic first movement, and there were Hindemith or Shostakovich traces in the lyric andante. But each time, and overall, the music came out strongly Mennin-energetically powerful, open and clean...