Same Russian Tune In Different Setting
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Received Thursday, 7 p.nj. LONDON,' June 2. Writing in the Moscow literary magazine No vy Mir", the Russian composer Dinitri Shostakovich, deseribed his compatriot and fellow eomposer, Igor Stravinskv, who now resides in New York, as "a traitor to' the Soviei motherland. " Shostakovich was giving his impressions of Western music and the people who compose it, following his reeent visit to the United States. Ilis impressions were uniformly unfavourable. Western music, he said, was decadent, warmongering, bourgeois and imperialistic. Russian mnsie, on the oth.er hand, as represented by loyal Soviet composers, was harmonious, truthfui, progressive and peaceloving. Stravins]cy ?s music, he said, was an example of decadent bourgeois art unacceptabje to those flghting fQr peace. Stravipsky himself, in addition to being a traitor, was guilty of "extreme reactionary subjectivism. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 June 1949, Page 5
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138Same Russian Tune In Different Setting Chronicle (Levin), 3 June 1949, Page 5
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