Word: khachaturian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warwick Braithwaite conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). The score for the ballet now being performed in Russia and by England's Sadler's Wells (TIME, Nov. 14), and what Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky calls "Soviet music-bah!" Completely undistinguished, it sounds more often like so-so Soviet Composer Khachaturian than great Composer Prokofiev. Performance and recording: good...
Four stay-at-home Russian composers -Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian and Nicolas Miaskovsky-also had a bad day in court last week. They had demanded an injunction against 20th Century-Fox for using snatches of their music in The Iron Curtain (exposing the Soviet spy ring in Canada). Said the four: using their music that way might give somebody the idea they were disloyal to their country. A lower court had already refused the injunction. Last week, the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division turned it down...
Shostakovich, in his music for the Young Guard (TIME, Oct. 25), and Aram Khachaturian, in his score for a film on Lenin, had managed to "reorganize" themselves. Other composers had begun "to rebuild their work," although "the process of their reconstruction proceeds slowly." But Prokofiev's work still smelled of the "marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture." Said Khrennikov: Prokofiev obviously had not "drawn the necessary conclusions from the decree of the Central Committee...
...Postoffice. The Moscow festivities were the windup of a month-long celebration of Komsomol accomplishments in which praise and exhortation were about equally mixed. Aram Khachaturian's young son Karen, a fledgling composer himself, published a cantata, Youth! Live Long and Blossom! Celebrating in their own way, members of the Chkalov Air Club made a record parachute jump without oxygen equipment, from 21,325 feet...
...Khachaturian: Violin Concerto (David Oistrakh, violinist, with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Gauk conducting; Mercury, 10 sides). An excellent recording of an energetic but empty piece, notable because it gives U.S. music lovers a first chance to hear one of the world's greatest living violinists. David Oistrakh, now 40, won an international competition for violinists in Brussels in 1937 (among the judges: Joseph Szigeti), has rarely been far out of Russia since...