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Moreover, he seemed to suffer from chronic bad luck. As a young man (a conservatory classmate of Sergei Prokofiev) he won the Rubinstein Prize, but his career was thrown off pace by World War I and the Bolshevik revolution. His first tour of England fell apart before it got started when his English manager dropped dead. Once, while his piano was taken off to Rio de Janeiro, he was left standing on the dock for lack of a visa. Two years after his sensational U.S. debut, a New Yorker critic wrote: "It wouldn't be hard to make...
...Soviet masters apparently decided that Composer Sergei Prokofiev was gradually getting back into tune, awarded him a Stalin Prize (2nd class) for a couple of pieces of music called Winter Bonfire and On Guard of Peace...
...Prokofiev: Concerto No. I (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, M. Martinon conducting; Vox, 1 side LP). This concerto, bold, brittle and brilliant, proves how formidable a composer the contemporary Russian master was, even at 20. Foldes gives it a fresh and clean performance. Recording: good...
...Communist calliope swung into high. The Union of Polish Youth cabled a demand for a "full pardon for the seven innocent Negro youths." Moscow trotted out its tame intellects. "In the name of justice and the sacred rights of man, we raise our wrathful voice in protest," said Shostakovich, Prokofiev & Co. The radio of the Chinese People's Government broadcast an appeal to stay "this barbaric sentence...
Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume, whose opinion of daughter Margaret's singing last month prompted Harry Truman to take angry pen in hand, felt the sting of some critical grapeshot himself. After Hume narrated Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf for a National Symphony children's concert in Constitution Hall, the Post printed a frank opinion by six-year-old Critic Frank Manola: "He doesn't sound like Basil Rathbone on my Peter and the Wolf records. He sounds more like Phil Harris on the radio...