A world premiere production of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's "Music for Athletes," recently restored by Princeton music scholar Simon Morrison, will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 17, in ...
During Stalin's Great Terror, propaganda was inextricable from artists' lives. When Soviet officials organized an athletics spectacle in 1939 to mobilize youth, complete with 30,000 "physical ...
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music,” said Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Music provides solace and ...
The December 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” explores the music of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. The piece is so popular at classical ...
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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The past couple of decades have been hard on Prokofiev. Although he was ...
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Author Owen Belcher is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the UMKC Conservatory. March 5 marks the 69th anniversary of the death of Ukrainian-born composer Sergei Prokofiev. Most people think of ...
Sergei Prokofiev was one of seven Soviet composers (among the others: Khachaturian and Shostakovich) denounced in 1948 “for formalistic and anti-democratic tendencies in music which are alien to the ...