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 ...

Eugenia Gorohovskaya, mezzo-soprano; St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov, conductor (RCA Victor Red Seal). The prospective buyer will note right off that this is not another ...

Sergei Prokofiev was a composer with an abundance of genius but little luck. In the Soviet Union (he went into exile after the Revolution but returned in 1934) he had to endure a series of criticisms ...

To celebrate the 125th birthday of the famed Russian composer and pianist Sergei Prokofiev, Yale School of Music faculty member Boris Berman wanted to do something special on campus. The poster for ...

On October 16, 1944, a private Moscow audience attended the modest premiere of an opera by one of the Soviet Union's most successful composers, Sergei Prokofiev. The opera was "War and Peace." Based ...

In can be easily argued that Russian born composer Sergei Prokofiev, who would have been 120 this week, was the most popular 20th century composer. As a sheet-music salesman, we can tell you that only ...

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This Chatter Sunday stars the music of Sergei Prokofiev, minimalist composer John Adams’ son Samuel and the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. The musicians will open the Sunday, Jan. 7, concert with ...

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At 60, tired, ailing and scarred by writing to please his Soviet masters, Sergei Prokofiev, Russia’s finest modern composer, sat down to write his Seventh Symphony. His aim, he told Pravda, was to ...