Word: prokofieff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ping-ponged between Blues-Singer Libby Holman and mopey Actor Morris Carnovsky. The famous suspense with which Director Sergei Eisenstein prefaced the battle in Alexander Nevsky has been unmercifully hacked when half a minute of editorial discretion would have kept it whole, and the excellent battle music which Prokofieff contrived for that sequence becomes an aural trunk murder. Eisenstein's appalling scene in which soldiers drive civilians down a great flight of steps. in Odessa (Potemkiri) has also been tampered with -it is now a shambles instead of a few minutes of cinema as brilliantly organized as a movement...
...Prokofieff: Classical Symphony (St. Louis Symphony, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor; 4 sides). The deftest work of modern "neoclassicism" (in which composers play with the mannerisms of Corelli's period) is given a performance not quite as neat as Dimitri Mitropoulos' splendid version (Columbia...
...clock on Sunday afternoons. During its span it has featured such conductors as Leopold Stokowski, Frank Black and Arturo Toscanini, the last performing everything from a superb Brahms' cycle to "The Stars and Stripes Forever." This program has not, however, been backward in introducing new works, performing for example, Prokofieff's music for "Alexander Nevsky," and a Stravinsky symphony...
...world premieres, published a magazine called Modern Music, propagandized among conductors and opera houses. The league's audiences sometimes hissed; music critics usually snorted. But not all of the league's musical bombshells were duds. It introduced U.S. listeners to the phenomenal Russian talents of Serge Prokofieff and Dmitri Shostakovich. It gave the U.S. ballet première of Igor Stravinsky's brilliant Le Sacre du Printemps...
Encore Album (Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist; Columbia; 6 sides). Six engaging short pieces, ranging from the tried & true Swan of Saint-Saëns to Prokofieff's whimsical Masques, played with flawless style, velvet tone...