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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). An All-Russian program: Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony, a Tchaikovsky song, Solitude, and excerpts from Stravinsky's Fire Bird. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...section on Arts & Letters came the suggestion that Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich be invited to explain his "ideology" to a congress of creative artists...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Borodin's overture to Prince Igor, Sibelius' Swan of Tuonela, Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony...
...bogged down all but one of the many violinists who tackled it. His orchestral works are as elaborately scored as those of Hector Berlioz, but, unlike Berlioz, Sessions seldom repeats themes to give listeners something to cling to. The new symphony's unmuted brasses were as noisy as Shostakovich's, and some passages reminded hearers of the atonalist music of Hindemith and Schonberg. Sessions, however, believes that he is closer to Hungary's late, great Bela Bartok. And he hates to be called atonal: "I hear my music with the same kind...
Khachaturian: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Moura Lympany with the London Symphony Orchestra; Decca, 8 sides). A flashy piece by Russia's No. 3 composer (after Prokofiev and Shostakovich), also FFRR...