Word: prokofiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berkshire Festival (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony in a program of Prokofiev, Sibelius, Ravel and Strauss...
...Russian to his stubby fingertips, and so is his music. The Communists regard him as a decadent, God-loving capitalist who writes ugly music. Stravinsky's opinion of the Communists is just as brusque: he thinks they are ruining Russian music (including that of his old friend Sergei Prokofiev). Says Stravinsky: "I hate Soviet music...
...Stravinsky had never put another eighth note on paper, he would still have been a greater innovator than Jean Sibelius, now 82, and Richard Strauss, 84, both of whom barely got into the century musically. Prokofiev and Shostakovich are both deep in Stravinsky's debt. Only one other living composer seriously challenges him as a contemporary influence: dour, 73-year-old Arnold Schönberg, spiritual leader of the atonalists, whose theoretical contributions are great, though his output is small...
Appalachian Spring. Mrs. Coolidge has commissioned at least one of the great quartets of Bartók, another by Prokofiev, ballet music by Stravinsky (Apollon Musagètes), Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring). Milhaud and Hindemith, and countless works by U.S. composers like Walter Piston, Quincy Porter, Howard Hanson, William Schuman. She built a $94,000 concert hall in the Library of Congress, and endowed it with $25,000 a year...
...Prokofiev: Summer Day Suite (Santa Monica Symphony, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Disc, 3 sides). Originally pieces for children, written for piano, this suite loses some of its charm in orchestration, even though it was the composer himself who orchestrated it. Performance: fair...