Word: khachaturian
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...keeping Soviet composers well-fed and commissioning them to write operas and symphnies. It even runs a "composers' country house" at Ivanovo, about 100 kilometers from Moscow, where all good Russian composers go in the summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces and pigs." The estate has 66 cows, 8,000 chickens and ducks, 135 pigs, and room for 20 com posers. In the main building the composers eat, sleep, loaf and criticize each other's music. Nearby are five dachas, or cottages, where...
...Says Khachaturian: "He has behaved like a real Soviet citizen." Aggressive Rhythms. Whether Glav mus is getting its money's worth in quality is for future generations to judge. But of its stimulating effect on quantity production there can be no doubt. Since 1939, recognized Soviet composers have written more than 66 symphonies, 46 operas, 22 ballets, 150 orchestral suites, fantasies and overtures, 40 cantatas, 400 smaller choral works and 150 quartets, quintets and other chamber music. Much of it is pretty uniform in style: restless, intensely energetic music, full of theatrical climaxes and aggressive rhythms, as cannily constructed...