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Music in Moscow

Werth, Alexander | June 22, 1957 issue

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Dmitri Shepilov, a more subtle and less bad-tempered and ill-mannered than the late Comrade Zhdanov: that was one of the most striking aspects of the Second Congress of Soviet composers; held in Moscow this spring. Everything went off much more smoothly than at the first Congress nine years ago, which came soon after that incredible conference at which Zhdanov encouraged the functionaries of the Union to tear to pieces several leading Soviet composers as so many formalists--whose work was not wanted, by the people.

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CONGRESSES & conventions; COMPOSERS; MUSICIANS; ARTISTS; SHEPILOV, Dmitrii; SOVIET Union
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