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...young composer, a bespectacled string-bean of a man named Sergei Prokofiev, made some revisions and the Chicago company decided to produce it after all. It flopped. Prokofiev got to conduct his The Love for Three Oranges three times-twice in Chicago in 1921, once in Manhattan in 1922. Then, disappointed, he took off for Paris, and, eventually, for Russia. Only the pert little march from the Three Oranges lingered...
Great Cheer. Last week, if he was still in touch with news from the U.S., ailing, 58-year-old Composer Prokofiev could take great cheer in the belated success of his 30-year-old opera...
Great Laughs. In Three Oranges, Prokofiev borrowed a little from the old technique of a play within a play-or rather, an opera within a play. What still seemed brand new was the way he used his chorus as a stage audience. Dressed in evening clothes and seated in boxes on either side of the stage, the chorus not only hisses the villain and boos the witch, but actually rushes onstage at one point and hustles the old crone off. When two of the orange-housed princesses die of thirst in the desert, the stage audience saves the third...
...Prokofiev: Sonata in F Minor (Joseph Szigeti, violin; Joseph Levine, piano; Columbia, 1 side, LP). This sonata, finished in 1946, is even a shade more beautiful than the earlier Sonata in D, which is on the other side. Performance and recording: excellent...
...Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 (William Kapell, pianist, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). One of Prokofiev's earlier and better works; powerful and percussive, it is just right for hammer-handed young (27) Pianist Kapell. Recording: excellent...