Word: shostakovitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberal Union members sent Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovitch a telegram yesterday inviting him to speak in Cambridge on "Trends in Modern Music," Herbert S. Levine '50, HLU president, announced last night...
Levine stated that the HLU fees "the need for international exchange of culture and ideas by the world's artists and intellectuals without such an interchange being made a vehicle for partisan political maneuvoring." Shostakovitch has been attending the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, alleged to be "pro-Soviet...
Levine also stated that Nicholas Slonimski, Boston music critic, had agreed to speak on the same platform with Shostakovitch. Howard Hanson, American composer and president of the Eastman School of Music, has tentatively accepted an HLU invitation to speak if Shostakovitch comes between Wednesday, April 20, and Sunday, April...
When the University Band exhibits its new classical reportoirs tomorrow evening in Sanders Theatre, it will mark a turning point in a long musical career. Prokofieff and Shostakovitch, Milhand and Coates, are a far cry from gridfron "compabs" and fight cheers, but "the best in the business" has transformed a "Saturday afternoon miracle" into a Sanders concert...
Darius Milhaud's "Suite Francaise," written to commemorate the liberation of France by the underground and the Allied armies, will feature the program, and a short dance by Shostakovitch, Prokofieff's Opus 99 "March," and F. W. Meacham's well-known "American patrol" complete the band's emergence as a primarily musical group...