Word: shostakoviches
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...concert hall of Minsk's Red Army House was packed, as for the premiere of a Shostakovich symphony. From the balcony seven baby spotlights painted the orchestra pit an eerie yellow. There was a nervous clearing of throats. But no baton was raised. Tonight the program was a trial of German war criminals, and the conductor was the public prosecutor...
Bach's Suite No. 2 in B Minor for strings and flute; Mozart's C Major ("Jupiter") Symphony; Beethoven's Fifth; Brahms's First; Schumann's Third ("Rhenish"); Shostakovich's Fifth; Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor; Richard Strauss's Till Eulens pie gel's Merry Pranks; Stravinsky's Petrouchka; Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun...
...Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 (The Pittsburgh Symphony, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 9 sides). The Pittsburgh's finest recording and one of Columbia's cleanest. Performance: good...
...ducks, 135 pigs, and room for 20 com posers. In the main building the composers eat, sleep, loaf and criticize each other's music. Nearby are five dachas, or cottages, where each composer can lock himself in to work in privacy. There, during the past two summers, Shostakovich finished his Eighth Symphony, Khachaturian, his Second, and Prokofiev finished his Fifth and began his Sixth. Prokofiev worked in a glassed-in verandah - containing couch, grand piano, chair and table -overlooking a pond where Ivanovo village kids swim...
...well that job has been done can be judged from the worldwide fame of Composers Prokofiev and Shostakovich...