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...Moscow concert, there was no mention of the Horowitz visit in either Pravda or Izvestiya, only a brief announcement in the newspaper Sovietskaya Kultura. Soviet musical commissars explained the lack of coverage by observing the concert was already sold out. "We think of him as an American pianist," said Tikhon Khrennikov, the all-powerful first secretary of the Soviet composers' union, who nevertheless went to the concert. In response to the American attack on Libya, the Soviets boycotted a dinner in Horowitz's honor at the Italian embassy, but a postconcert party at Spaso House, the ornate Moscow residence...
This state of affairs is not surprising, given the hostility to innovation that has marked the long reign of conservative Composer Tikhon Khrennikov, 74, since 1948 the iron chancellor of the state Composers Union. The tough-minded, politically agile Stalinist, who was a point man for the infamous Resolution of 1948 that ripped Shostakovich and Prokofiev for modernism, Khrennikov brought a generation of composers to heel in the name of socialist realism...
...This is one of Shostakovich's most profound works. It is filled with optimism, affirmation of life, and trust in man's inexhaustible strength." So said Tikhon Khrennikov, head of the Soviet Composers Union, last January after the Moscow premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's Symphony...
...week, summitry speculation had provided considerably more suspense than the all-too predictable Middle East debate in the General Assembly. The meeting in Glassboro only heightened the atmosphere of unreality at the U.N.'s glass house. Even as Johnson and Kosygin met, Byelorussia's Tikhon Kiselev was railing in the General Assembly against the Israeli "reign of terror" in Arab lands...
Short of Plan. Tikhon Sokolov, Party Secretary of the Virgin Lands Territory of North Kazakhstan, admitted that poor farming methods as well as a rainy spring had knocked the region's harvest down to 73% of plan. "We are criticizing you for this," snapped Khrushchev. "We are taking it to heart," Sokolov replied. Sokolov said his region had boosted meat production, but 3,000,000 sheep had died for lack of feed. Unaccountably, Khrushchev said nothing. But when Sokolov said his region planned to raise hogs for a market weight of 110 kilograms (242 lbs.), the boss broke...