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...also goes over well with the crowds. It has, like Tchaikovsky's music, melody, bounce and color-and basically banal themes. Khachaturian's life in a bureaucracy is therefore not as complicated as that of his musical betters, Prokofiev, the sophisticated ex-exile, or jittery Dmitri Shostakovich, whose musical talents are wrenched by ideology. In the most recent sampling of Russian musical tastes, Khachaturian works proved to be the second most frequently performed in the U.S.S.R. (first, Prokofiev; third, Tchaikovsky...
...panel, an honor reserved for star pupils. Khachaturian still draws heavily on his native Armenian and Georgian folk themes and rhythms for his symphonies and concertos, and on Ravel and Stravinsky, among others, for his handling of them. The three living composers he admires most are Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. (Russian expatriate Stravinsky, now a U.S. citizen, has been denounced by Culture and Life as "a man without a fatherland...
...answers to these questions are: 1) Sibelius, 2) Gershwin, 3) Shostakovich, 4) Schumann, 5) Rachmaninoff and, for the cut, Chopin. The answer to our offering of TIME for Music is that department stores in all 31 cities have accepted it and are displaying, or planning to display, it to coincide with the opening of their local symphony orchestra's season...
...Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, William Steinberg conducting; Musicraft, 16 sides). Shostakovich's repetitive and bombastic tribute to wartime Leningrad gets its first U.S. recording. Performance: fair...
...Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia, 8 sides; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 6 sides). First U.S. recordings of the 1945 work which the high command of Soviet music damned as "ideologically weak" and "not reflecting the true spirit of the Soviet people." U.S. listeners will find the Ninth sometimes playful, often merely trivial and tricky, and never a match for Shostakovich's Fifth. Koussevitzky, speeding the slow movement, gets through it in one record less than Kurtz, but his performance is less satisfactory...