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...Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even dared to suggest that it was written in too much of a hurry. Last week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds...
...week announced the U. S. premiere of the "finest symphony of the past 15 years," musical cognoscenti lifted their brows. Fine symphonies of the past 15 years have included two by Finland's great bald Jean Sibelius, a half-dozen by such talented Russians as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff and Tykon Krennikov . Conductor Goossens' entry for the honor was the Symphony in G Minor of reticent, little-known British Composer Ernest John Moeran. Premiered before a stuffy audience in Cincinnati's Music Hall, Moeran's opus drew pleased applause but no hosannas. Conductor Goossens' pronouncement...
...program for the concerts next Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon by the Boston Symphony consists of Haydn's Symphony in G major, No. 88, Prokofieff's suite, "Licutenant Kije," and Sibelius's Second Symphony...
Second most important U. S. Russian is Major Alexander Prokofieff de Seversky, who lost a leg for Russia while flying in the War, has lately zoomed into military importance by producing what is generally regarded as the world's fastest pursuit plane. Last week he flew his chunky ship from Belleville, Ill. to Dayton, Ohio at an average speed of 321 m.p.h. Other prominent Russian designers...
Next March the Moscow Philharmonic will give the world premiere of Prokofieff's second suite based on Romeo & Juliet. He also has been commissioned, in connection with the centenary of the death of Poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), to do special music for a cinema and two plays, in all three of which his performance will perforce be compared with those of Russians who have made use of the same Pushkin works: Boris Godunov (Moussorgsky), Pique-Dame and Eugene Oniegin (Tchaikovsky...