Word: prokofiev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repertoire. "The young man will have to make up his mind," said one, "whether he wants to be an artist or a flesh-and- blood jukebox." Though Cliburn went on performing as many as 100 concerts a year for the next two decades (which did include some Mozart, Chopin, Prokofiev), the authoritative New Grove Dictionary has summed up his fading career by saying that "he could not cope with the loss of freshness; his . . . playing took on affectations . . . He stopped performing...
Hugh Hinton will be a long way from Minden, Louisiana, when he sits down to play Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto tonight before a packed Sanders Theater audience...
...piece was Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, which Hinton will perform again tonight...
Lately, Mutter has been performing frequently with Cellist and Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, both as a soloist with Rostropovich's National Symphony Orchestra in Washington and as two-thirds of a string trio that includes Violist Bruno Giuranna. Speaking as one for whom the violinistic legerdemain of the two Prokofiev concertos holds no terrors, Mutter observes of her new mentor: "He is the only one who knows what was going on with Prokofiev when he wrote that music...
...surprising, given the hostility to innovation that has marked the long reign of conservative Composer Tikhon Khrennikov, 74, since 1948 the iron chancellor of the state Composers Union. The tough-minded, politically agile Stalinist, who was a point man for the infamous Resolution of 1948 that ripped Shostakovich and Prokofiev for modernism, Khrennikov brought a generation of composers to heel in the name of socialist realism...