Word: shostakoviches
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...official-and only-Soviet news agency, Tass had dutifully reported the spankings which have lately stung many a Red backside, from the shoemakers to Shostakovich. Last week, it was Tass's own turn to go to the woodshed...
...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, he is accustomed to U.S. audiences. He believes in educating his listeners gradually. Says he: ''I exposed them, step by step, to better music than Strauss waltzes and Tchaikovsky. So we have gone from Victor Herbert to Aaron Copland, from Rachmaninoff to Shostakovich." He is one of the most relaxed conductors in the business, but believes that the waving of his long spidery arms helps both the orchestra and audience to understand the music...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor. Soloist: 15-year-old Pianist Sylvia Zaremba. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski...
...full of Mexican folk tunes. He borrowed folk and hymn themes for his ballet scores (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) and his movie music (Our Town). The Third Symphony, which Boston heard last week, varied from tenderness to brassy choirs which led a Boston Post critic to call it "Shostakovich in the Appalachians...
...what holds for writers is just as true for musicians. The latest Soviet artist to feel the sting of Zhdanov's whip was once-favored Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Loudly hailed as "a triumph of our great victory" at its premiere, Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony was described last week by the Central Committee's Culture and Life as a "playful and fanciful trifle . . . sharp and screaming" and hopelessly lacking in "warm, ideological conviction." It was probably, conceded the young composer's critic charitably, the fault of undue influence by expatriate Russian Composer Stravinsky, "an artist without...