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Dmitri Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 10 sides). Most popular of Fire Warden Shostakovich's big, embattled symphonies, the Fifth has already been recorded by Stokowski and the Philadelphians for Victor. The Clevelanders do a brilliant job, but Stokowski's recording is still tops...
Loyally the khaki-clad audience roared: "Yes!" Unwisely Conductor Stokowski asked: "How many say no?" Following an old U.S. custom, a lone dissenter piped...
...home," Stokowski shouted at the rugged individualist. The tank corps listened politely to the rest of the program...
Unruffled, Stokowski leaped to the podium, introduced the guest of honor, Mme. Ivy Litvinoff, wife of Russia's roly-poly Ambassador. The soldiers were asked to sing the Soviet national anthem (The Internationale). Most of the men had never heard the words...
Still unruffled, Stokowski got down to the main business of the evening, Shostakovich's 80-minute masterwork. Discreetly Conductor Stokowski had cut the symphony's tortuous length by nearly half, but as he boomed and rattled into the home stretch of the first movement the audience shuffled and groaned impatiently, electricians began jabbering over their microphones, newsreel men noisily ground their cameras. Suddenly Stokowski stopped the orchestra. Said he: "Men, there is a little more of this symphony to play. I do not know whether you want to hear it and it does not matter...