Word: prokofleff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raphael Silverman 2G, graduated from Dartmouth in 1936, will be violin soloist. He began his musical studies with Fiedemann in Berlin and with Korgueff in Leningrad, Russia, specializes in an interpretation of "Violin Concerto in D" by Serge Prokofleff...
Appearing as soloist with the Boston Symphony orchestra in their regular week-end concerts, Mr. Heifltz will offer the first presentation in America of Serge Prokofleff's Second Violin Concerto. This work was originally performed in Madrid in 1935, the year of its composition...
...Serge Koussovitzky will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Sanders Theatre this evening in its first concert in the Cambridge series. The program is a varied one consisting of works by Prokofleff, Strauss, and Boothoven...
Other additions are two sharply contrasted works of Prokofleff--the "Classical Symphony" of 1917, and a Russian Overture, composed only last year, which is based upon themes of folk character and is scored for a large orchestra...
...years, but faints away on the cold floor of the stacks when he finds no English composers except a little Vaughan Williams and Holst; none of the Italian, Malipiero; no scores of the Hungarians, Bela Bartok and Kodaly; no modern German or Austrian except Schoenberg; some Russians, but no Prokofleff. The final shock comes when he finds modern America represented solely by MacDowell and Foote. Upon regaining his senses, the poor student borrows what he can from the private collection of his tutor, the pages of whose music are already falling apart from being loaned too often...