Word: shostakoviches
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Next week, Tanglewood and its neighboring villages of Lenox and Stockbridge will be crammed with visitors anxious to hear what the rehearsing was about. They will hear the 110-man Boston Symphony Orchestra in nine concerts. U.S. premieres: Dmitri Shostakovich's new and brief (25-minute) Ninth Symphony, which Koussevitzky enthusiastically describes as "absolutely classic in form until sometimes it is very near to Haydn," and Peter Grimes, a widely touted opera in English by England's Benjamin Britten, commissioned by Koussevitzky and first played in London in 1945. The student production will be conducted by Leonard Bernstein...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). All-Russian program, featuring Shostakovich's First Symphony, Efrem Kurtz conducting...
...Symphony Orchestra (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Vladimir Golschmann conducts Shostakovich's Fifth...
...from the Tchaikovsky concerto, Stalin jumped up to propose a toast in vodka, and List had a chance to talk to him. "I said 'I like Tchaikovsky,' and he said, 'Good, I do too.' I said, 'I played the first American performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto in 1934,' and Stalin said 'Good.' " Winston Churchill requested Missouri Waltz, and "fortunately, I knew the tune." At another dinner Truman turned the pages while List played Chopin. An hour of piano playing was all Churchill's ears could stand. List remembers...
...words were the kind of stuff that Norman Corwin writes-sometimes graphic, frequently inflated. In the background, Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony played music that had more than a touch of Shostakovich. It was the première of The Airborne Symphony, Marc (The Cradle Will Rock) Blitzstein's 50-minute history of aviation for orchestra, chorus, speaker and soloists...