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 ...

Boston University Music Professor Jeremy Yudkin shares his fascinating knowledge of music, music history, composers, orchestras with concert-goers and music lovers ahead of select performances by the ...

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Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev The Mariinsky Orchestra and five soloists, including the young superstar Daniil Trifonov, played a complete survey of this ...

THE BASICS: After a successful solo recital last year, pianist Alexander Malofeev returned to Buffalo to perform the popular Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Prokofiev with JoAnn Falletta conducting the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

I SEE myself sitting in the hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (or was it in the Great Hall of Nobility?) at a concert to the memory of Scriabin. This was a concert given by Rachmaninoff for the ...