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THE CAPITALISTIC MACHINE AGAINST A RADICAL INDIVIDUAL






        features a “narrow, hemmed-in formula, doggedly reg-  help of a former teacher, Alexander Siloti, Blitzstein
        ular; the harmonies mostly bleak, hollow, underdone,   managed to arrange a meeting with the Russian-born
        occasionally passionate,”  the “open quality in the ver-  English conductor, Albert Coates. Coates had import-
        tical line, and closed one in the horizontal” gave the   ant contacts with the musical establishment in the
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        work a “special and personal character.”            Soviet Union, conducting at the Bolshoi and heading
           From the beginning, Blitzstein dreamed that the   up efforts to unite the nation’s orchestras under a sin-

        work would fi nd a home in the Soviet Union. With the   gle artistic leadership. In September, before the opera




































































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