2 QUOTES WITH «PROKOFIEV»
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Prokofiev.
Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.
Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROKOFIEV»
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Prokofiev in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Prokofiev: From Russia to the West, 1891-1935
" "The book follows Prokofiev's personal and musical journey from his childhood on a Ukrainian country estate to the years he spent travelling in America and Europe as an acclaimed interpreter of his own works.
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Sergei
Prokofiev: a biography
A richly detailed portrait of a man whose complex character, like his music, combined the traditional and the contemporary in odd and unexpected ways.
His charming and witty music combines the traditional and the modern in such works as the opera The Love for Three Oranges, the ballet Romeo and Juliet and the musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf. Book jacket.
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Selected Letters of Sergei
Prokofiev
This indispensable edition will shed new light on Prokofiev's misunderstood life and career, illuminate his creative processes and aesthetic principles, and introduce his exceptional literary talents to those already captivated by his ...
Sergey Prokofiev, Harlow Robinson, 1998
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The Love and Wars of Lina
Prokofiev: The Story of Lina and ...
Unfolding with the intrigue of a spy novel, The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev traces the largely untold story of a remarkable woman who gave up her career, her country and her freedom for the brilliant man she married.
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Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the ...
Boris Berman draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev's work to guide music lovers and pianists through the composer's nine piano sonatas.
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The People's Artist :
Prokofiev's Soviet Years:
Prokofiev's ...
The story he found in these documents is one of lofty hopes and disillusionment, of personal and creative upheavals.
Simon Morrison Professor of Music Princeton University, 2008
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Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev
Ballet impresario Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev and composer Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev are eminent figures in twentieth-century cultural history, yet this is the first detailed account of their fifteen-year collaboration.
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Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina
Prokofiev
Morrison’s portrait of the marriage of Lina and Serge Prokofiev is the story of a remarkable woman who fought for survival in the face of unbearable betrayal and despair and of the irresistibly talented but heartlessly self-absorbed ...
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Selections from Sergei
Prokofiev: Music for Children, Opus 65
Another new collection in our Piano Masters Series is this book containing eight of the most popular piano solos from Prokofiev's group entitled Music for Children.
Sergey (COP) Prokofiev, Dale Tucker, 2000
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROKOFIEV»
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Review: Weilerstein, Shaham provide electricity in weekend's big …
A fixture at the Aspen Music Festival since she was a preteen, the cellist blazed through Prokofiev's Symphony Concerto on Sunday afternoon ... «Aspen Times, Jul 15»
Jake Shimabukuro, Stewart Copeland coming to Massry
Works by Bach, Piston and Prokofiev. Free. 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4: “It's a Jazzy Christmas!” / A Celebration of Vince Guaraldi's Holiday Jazz ... «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
theartsdesk in Pärnu: Top players, great Estonians
... Tubin Sixth, Nielsen Sixth" (I'd been complementing Grin on his own superb recording of the Prokofiev). There was no Nielsen at the Festival, ... «The Arts Desk, Jul 15»
Heroes of our Time: Wheelchair dancers grace Bolshoi
The dense score by composer Ilya Demutsky is inspired by Prokofiev and Stravinsky and written in a “classic symphonic style” despite the ... «The Asian Age, Jul 15»
On Exhibit: Rare Book & Manuscript Library Celebrates Prokofiev …
Outroumava Portrait Prokofiev Columbia University Archive Anna Ostroumova painted a portrait of Serge Prokofiev in Paris, 1926. The Rare ... «Record - Columbia News, Jul 15»
Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos 4 & 5, review: 'a musical expression of …
The astute timing of this release ties it in with the performance of Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony that the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Classic CD: Concerti, Between Darkness and Light
There's no Beethoven here, although the longest track has the first movement of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, presented in a smooth big ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
It's Time Again for SummerFest Chamber Music in La Jolla
5, in Scripps Park at La Jolla Cove with works by Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Beethoven, Moszkowski and Bach. Premiere chamber works by ... «Times of San Diego, Jul 15»
Listening Post: Lorraine Feather, a Tribute to Lynyrd Skinner and …
Stravinsky isn't thought of as a piano composer the way Prokofiev was but he toured performing some of these works. A terrific story from the ... «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
Mir Quartet to perform Beethoven in Albuquerque and Santa Fe
3 in C minor and violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Marc-André Hamelin will perform Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata No. 2 in D major for violin and ... «Albuquerque Journal, Jul 15»