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...tired, ailing and scarred by writing to please his Soviet masters, Sergei Prokofiev, Russia's finest modern composer, sat down to write his Seventh Symphony. His aim, he told Pravda, was to "create in music a picture of bright youth." In Philadelphia last week, five weeks after his death, Prokofiev's "Youth Symphony" got its U.S. premiere. The last work of the master turned out to be as pretty and inconsequential as a Hollywood film score...
...York's City Opera Company, which has made itself a fine reputation mounting such neglected modern masterpieces as Berg's Wozzeck and Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges, last week did a turnabout. It wet its thumb, leafed back through the decades, and uncovered a neglected oldtimer that had not been heard in Manhattan since the days of Andrew Jackson: Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella). It left the opening-night audience whooping with delight...
...Soul or Something." A man little given to speeches, Prokofiev once offhandedly said that his Fifth Symphony was "about the spirit of man-his soul or something like that." But his music spoke for itself: there is hardly an orchestra in the West that has not played some of his seven symphonies or his eight concertos; his piano pieces are standards on recital programs, and his musical playlet, Peter and the Wolf, is a happy classic with U.S. children...
...music. He was no longer the daring musical revolutionary, but his "realistic" Seventh Symphony (first performed last month) and his 1951 oratorio, On Guard for Peace, put him firmly back in the graces of the Kremlin. Last week, as Joseph Stalin lay unconscious, cerebral hemorrhage brought death to Sergei Prokofiev at 61. In a Moscow all but preoccupied with the death of the dictator, thousands filed into Composers Hall, where his body lay in state, to pay a tribute to the Soviet Union's finest composer...
Died. Sergei Prokofiev, 61, Russia's foremost composer (The Love for Three Oranges, Peter and the Wolf); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his country home outside Moscow (see Music...