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...powers back in '36, Haggin thought he was a pedantic Italian opera hack, but now that the aging maestro has very obviously lost his spark, Haggin is daily discovering new wonders of poetic sensitivity and insight in his tired performances. He waited two months after the performance of Shostakovitch's fan-fared Seventh to turn out one of the most magnificently scathing reviews in the history of American criticism, but when Toscanini last fall revived the music to "Romeo and Juliet" by Berlioz, who is generally considered a rather seedy romantic, he glowed with extravagant good feeling...
...composers. "Time" magazine, for instance, loves to juggle the "Mid-Western league" against the "Eastern league," and play one conductor off against another as if American music were a species of indoor athletics. "Life" recently announced, in its paternal way, that it was becoming "unpatriotic" not to like the Shostakovitch Seventh. The result of all this hurrah-boys publicity about the mere periphery and mechanics of music itself, which, unlike football, can't be made a universal pastime without cheapening it beyond recognition. It takes as much practice in listening to understand Beethoven as it does practice in reading...
This intensification is not only true of the drama, but of music as well, Dana stated. As Shostakovitch has said, music and bullets go together in the Red Army. Drama is similarly an almost physical necessity for the Soviet people. In the absence of the vast volume of motion pictures which we have in America, it is their chief form of visual entertainment...
Another feature of the rally program will be the "United Nations Song" written for the Allies by the Russian composer, Shostakovitch, with new English lyrics. This will be the first time the song has been heard at the University...
...afternoon by broadcasting a concert by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, probably under the direction of Engene Ormandy, from the Philadelphia Academy of Music. Friday night listeners will hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky. In the near future WLP hopes to be able to present a recording of Shostakovitch's Seventh Symphony...