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...Russians saw their danger well (see col. 1). They hoped that the Red Army would protract the game, keep the Germans from reaching the Volga until winter froze the stakes. Said Pravda: "Every minute shows that the Germans are gambling their entire fortune on the present campaign...
Promptly a Pravda article called Shostakovich's music "un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric and leftist" (atonal). A few days after that, Pravda attacked his ballet, The Limpid Stream. Friends feared that Shostakovich's next composition might have to be called Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make. But Composer Shostakovich was not a revolutionist for nothing. He publicly agreed that Pravda knew more about music than he did. He withdrew his Fourth Symphony (it has never been performed) after one rehearsal. He announced that he would stake his musical future on a Fifth Symphony...
...other work, the Shostakovitch Quintet, is a newcomer still' very much under dispute. Completed in the fall of '40, it won the fabulous Stalin prize and was called by "Pravda" -- "the greatest musical composition of 1940." On the other hand, Haggin of the "Nation" dubbed it fluent nonsense, so you can take your choice. Whatever its ultimate musical value, it is well worth hearing, and probably easier to grasp at first listening than the Brahms. The Quintet is, on the whole, lighter and less tense than its predecessor, the Fifth Symphony, and it is laced with the familiar Shostakovitch devices...
...Russians were spring-feverish with confidence. Said Pravda: "We have considerably more tanks than we had before and their quality is . . . considerably better than that of the Germans. The Soviet Air Force has increased in numbers and strength and our command continues to hold the initiative firmly. The deep snow that hindered our advance is melting and conditions for an increase in the scope of our attacks are becoming more favorable." Proudly the Russians announced last week that in a little less than a month they had shot down 891 German planes, lost only 239 themselves. They claimed definite...
Smarting under the raid from U.S. bombers which showed how vulnerable Japan is at home (see p. 18), the Japanese found little to soothe them in Pravda's words. On scores of airfields near Vladivostok (only 685 miles from Tokyo) hundreds of Soviet airplanes were tuned for action. Soon the weather would permit re-inforocements (if Soviet-Japanese neutrality lapsed into war) to be flown from the U.S. via Alaska. Ready to face the big Jap army in Manchukuo was a Red army (partially mechanized...