Word: shostakoviches
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...Goberman, onetime pupil of Leopold Auer, onetime violinist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, at present assistant concertmaster in Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Messrs. Waldman and Goberman declare that their firm, which will issue an old and a new work every month (first new one: two octets by Dmitri Shostakovich), will put profits, if any, into the making of more & better discs...
...abjectly crawled, withdrew editorially everything he had said, apologized. Even so, Bukharin was left not quite sure whether it had been Stalin who took umbrage at "Oblomov" or somebody else in the Party's inner circle. CRACK!-even louder that same day Pravda lashed out against Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whom every Soviet music critic has hailed as the Revolution's most brilliant genius in the realm of operatic and symphonic composition. Not only has Comrade Shostakovich been Bol- shevism's musical darling, but Capitalism in Manhattan put on its boiled shirts and sped to the splendiferous Metropolitan...
...most luridly erotic of all opera heroines has yet to appear on any opera stage. Beside her, Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk would seem a rural innocent (TIME, Feb. 11). The adulterous Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck is a colorless nobody compared with Alban Berg's Lulu, a symbol of insatiability conceived in the tortured mind of Playwright Frank Wedekind (Erdgeist, Die Büchse der Pandora). Sooner or later Lulu is bound to make her operatic appearance because of Composer Berg's reputation, the power of his music. Orchestral excerpts from Lulu have...
...laugh at itself. Technically as adept as Chapayev, with an equally good performance by Boris Chirkov (last month made an "Honorary Artist of the Republic"), The Youth of Maxim also contains a musical score and sound arrangements contributed by U. S. S. R.'s brilliant young composer. Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk). It begins a trilogy which will carry the biography of Maxim up to the present time. Best sound: "Varshayianka," sung by workers in jail to infuriate their guards...
...Here the producers were faced with one of many moral problems. According to Shostakovich's directions, the cook should be plopped into the barrel rump up. Clevelanders decided it would be wiser to exhibit her head. The Philadelphia Orchestra, which will give Lady Macbeth in March, considered an English translation but finally despaired of finding any that would pass even the most liberal censorship...