Word: prokefloff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last-named composer in represented by his famous Third or "Eroica" Symphony which was played last weekend in Boston during the Friday and Saturday series. In contrast to this great work is a recent orchestral suite by the Russian musician, Sergo Prokefloff, who is well known for both his composing and pianoforte abilities. This particular suite is an arrangement of his incidental music to the Soviet film, "Lieutenant Kije," and is grouped into five movements of a light and satirical mood. The film was produced in the U. S. S. R. in 1933 and the music is being heard...
Between Bootheven and Prokefloff (chronologically, that is) lies Richard Strauss, who, while still alive, composed most of his greatest works twenty or more years ago. "Till Eulenspigel's Merry Pranks after the Old-Fashioned Reguish Manner--in Rondo Form" is a long title but highly appropriate for one of his shorter tone poems, which is also to be heard tonight. When first performed in Boston in 1896, it encountered a most cold reception and phrases such as "a blood-curdling night-mare," "a musical obscenity," and "a noisy, nerve-destroying, heavy piece of work" were recklessly hurled at the composer...
...Koussevitzky's Symphony Hall program for Friday afternoon and Saturday evening will be devoted entirely to Richard Strauss and Prokefloff. To the Thursday selections will be added the German composer's grandiose "Death and Transfiguration," which makes skillful use of cerie woodwind passages and muted syncopation in the strings to build up a tension yielding only to the C major chords of the brasses in the finale...
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