Word: shostakovitch
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...senior conductor at the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, stayed there until the Revolution. He did not settle again in Russia until last year. When Conductor Coates arrived in Manhattan last month he seemed thoroughly Russianized, voluble in praise of Soviet music. He talked of 21-year-old Dmitri Shostakovitch ("marvellous, a second Mozart!"), Tchoporin the lawyer, who had written an "absolutely remarkable" Soviet Symphony, Nikolai Miaskovsky whose Twelfth Symphony contrasts the new Russia with...