Word: szostakowicz
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Victor spells it "Szostakowicz," Columbia "Shastakowitch," and to the general public it means some of the best music to come out of Europe since Strauss and Sibelius said their last important says. He is already considered by many critics the White Hope of the symphony, although his name has not yet crept into the Widener stacks. The greatest factor in this meteoric rise was, of course, the great qualities of his music, but the Soviet Propaganda machine, through which he is new Russia's Composer Laureate and intellectual idol, also had a great deal to do with it. Back...
...symphonic scraps and husks which show signs of technical skill in the fashioning. As a result we have no single general style to use as a critical yardstick, and have to depend largely on our instinctive reactions. When, therefore, out of the common welter of academic modernism, music with Szostakowicz's internal strength and broad emotional appeal comes to light, then there is a mighty dither among critics and listeners alike, and the heavy-duty-adjectives are brought into play. On the whole, however, I think that his music justifies his reputation...
Victor has just released Stokowski's excellent recording of Szostakowicz's sixth symphony, and Columbia has recorded his quintet for piano and strings with the Stuyvesant Quartet and a Miss Vivian Rivkin. I haven't been able to hear the quintet, but I was very much impressed by the sixth. I don't think it will rank as high as the fifth in the long run, but there is a lot of good stuff in it, especially the sombre and leisurely first movement which is the kind of drawn-out thematic development which he does to perfection in the first...
Selections from Bach, Beethoven, Palestrina, Cimaroa, Morley, Delaney, and Szostakowicz will be included in the program. Choral and orchestral numbers will precede the feature pieces in which both groups will perform together. The performance is open to the public...
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