Word: prokofieff
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...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...
Only off-key note in the film is the background music. Written by left-wing Hanns Eisler, composer of the battle song Komin-tern, it is not Mexican, but an ultrasophisticated mixture of Hindemith, Schönberg and Prokofieff. This was not the way Steinbeck had planned it. His first choice for composer was Mexico's famed Silvestre Revueltas, a man of Balzacian corpulence, Bohemian courses, and a gift for orchestration. At the climax of their negotiations the hard-drinking Revueltas-to Steinbeck's and Mexico's dismay -died at the unripe age of 40 years...
Hampton's reprints are all in the public domain. Because Russia, like the U.S., is not a member of the Berne copyright convention, and has no copyright treaty with the U.S., Soviet Composer Serge Prokofieff is on the Hampton list. Hampton sells his Classical Symphony for $17.25. Rumanian Georges Enesco's early works were for some reason never copyrighted; Hampton sells his Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 for $20 (the European edition costs...
...sheltered youngsters is Decca's current children's list: Tarzan of the Apes and Superman's Christmas Adventure. Both Decca and Victor offer recordings of Dickens' Christmas Carol; in Decca's, the Scrooge is Ronald Colman. Columbia puts out Prokofieff's musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf. The music is well handled by Leopold Stokowski and his All American Youth Orchestra, but Basil Rathbone's narration lacks the imposing resonance of Richard Hale in the earlier Victor...