Word: shostakoviches
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...boxer dog Mowgli beside him. Usually by the time the studios get the script to him, he has only about six weeks to do the entire score. Much of his work sounds like a cut-&-paste job on themes and orchestral effects out of Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich. Some of his scores (for which he gets $15,000 to $20,000 apiece) have scarcely an original theme in them, are made up largely of a succession of transitions from one almost recognizable melody to another. Between contracts he tries to be original, is now finishing his second symphony...
Russia's 39-year-old Composer Shostakovich himself had disarmingly described it as "a merry little piece. Musicians will love to play it and critics will delight in blasting...
...anticipation in the Berkshires. Six thousand musical pilgrims, who had bought their tickets weeks in advance, sat shivering in Tanglewood's Music Shed. Outside, in the chilly evening, another 2,000 huddled in the dew-covered grass. They were gathered to hear the U.S. premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's new Ninth Symphony...
...Ninth's most unusual quality was its shortness: 33 minutes. Its five quick movements tumbled after each other, three of them without so much as a break. Instead of the shimmering wit of a Mozart or Haydn, they had familiar noisy devices from Shostakovich's tumultuous hour-long Seventh and Eighth symphonies. In the frail little Ninth, the whooping brasses and bassoon cadenzas were like 16-in. guns mounted on a PT boat...
Berkshire Festival (Sat. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony in Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony (first broadcast)-see Music...