Word: shostakovitch
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Boston Symphony--first 1946-47 performances Friday afternoon and Saturday night, featuring Koussevitzky, the Shostakovitch Ninth, a Scriabin tone poem, and Brahms' First...
...final Boston Symphony Concert in New York of the season, the Glee Club will repeat its performance of the Testament of Freedom in Carnegie Hall. At all three performances of this work, Koussevitzky will also play Shostakovitch's Eighth Symphony, introduced into this country a year ago last summer, the second of a trio of symphonies depicting Russia...
...modern French music by Milhaud, Debussy and Ravel, enough to tire even the most ardent admirer of musical delicacy and impressionism. To date there has not been a single note of Bach or Handel heard in Symphony Hall. Although there seemed to be time enough for two by Shostakovitch and one by Miaskovsky, there was not a single Haydn, and but one Mozart symphony performed...
...choice of the Shostakovitch Symphony No.6 was a good one with which to round out a well selected group. The quality of the music, unlike the late 7th, is unquestionable. The musical world, after receiving the 5th, was well prepared for this symphony, and it has made a sound impression wherever and whenever it has been performed. Dr. Koussevitsky is one of the leading champions and interpreters of modern Russian music in this country, and last night one might have thought that the Shostakovitch 6th had been dedicated to him. The orchestra was controlled perfectly, and performed like a well...
Ever since Wagner's death, the excitement of hearing and reviewing new music has been dying out, and, with the exception of a politically inspired flare-up in Shostakovitch's case, is almost dead. Gilman of the Herald Tribune, who died a couple of years ago, was the last survivor of the great days of Wagner controversy when a fashionable New York club had to put up signs to the effect that discussions of politics and Wagner were forbidden in the smoking room. As late as the summer of '39 Gilman wrote about a Wagner performance in the Tribune...