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Though he is the most talked about of all contemporary composers, the real Dmitri Shostakovich has long been as mysterious as a Kremlin state secret. Now the secret...
...Embassy in Moscow Ambassador William Standley gave a rousing Fourth of July party. The guests, Americans and Russians, enjoyed: hot dogs with buns and mustard; punch with vodka; a Russian orchestra presenting a concert of American music, including Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and a Shostakovich arrangement of When Johnny Comes Marching Home...
...opinion the inclusion of Monteverdi, Palestrina and Chopin in the twelve best list of composers voted by the musicologists is almost as absurd as the inclusion of Tin Pan Alley Gershwin by the Stanford students. And where are the two greatest symphonists of our time-Sibelius and Shostakovich...
...Shostakovich: Piano Concerto (Halle Orchestra, Leslie Heward conducting, with Eileen Joyce; Columbia; 6 sides). One of Shostakovich's early (first performed in 1933) and most sparkling scores. Brilliantly performed and well recorded...
Most prolific living writer of symphonies is Russia's Nicolai Yokovlevich Miaskovsky, who at 61 has already written 23 and is still going strong. Finland's Jean Sibelius and another Russian, Dmitri Shostakovich, may be longer on quality, but they have in their long lives written only seven symphonies apiece. In the U.S., rangy, Oklahoma-born, 45-year-old Roy Harris leads the field. Last week his Fifth Symphony (the first Fifth by any U.S. native, living or dead) was premiered by Boston's Sergei Koussevitsky and broadcast the following night over the Blue Network...