Word: prokofleff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following the intermission, Nicholas Van Slyck '46 will lead the orchestra in Prokofleff's Overture on Yiddish Themes and in the first performance of his own composition, "Divertimento...
...Band program will include: three Souza Marches, the Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale Medleys, Milhand's "Suite Francais," the "Military Suite" in E flat by Gustav Holst, the March from "Opus 99" by Sergei Prokofleff, and "Pavaue" by Morton Gould, Of special interest will be "Radcliffiana," a musical sketch of the Annex arranged by Leroy Anderson...
Dartmouth songs and medleys as well as a few marches new to the outfit's repertoire will be featured in the concert. Morton Gould's "Pavanne" and a Prokofleff march will lend a dignified air to the proceedings...
...unusual program. The list includes the rarely performed ninety-fifth Symphony in C minor of Haydn, a Stravinsgy Symphony in Three Movements; Ravels suite, "Le Tombau de Coupler in"; and Richard Strauss's "Death and Transfiguration." The orchestra will play again tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, with a Prokofleff suite, the Sibelius First Symphony, and the Haydn ninety-fifth making up the program...
...Prokofleff: Sonata No. 7, Opus 83 (DM 1042). This second of Prokofleff's three "War" Sonatas was only completed in 1942, and shows its composer at the peak of his skill as a piano writer. The grotesquely dramatic changes in mood and tempo certainly do not make for particularly pleasant listening but they reveal a highly ingenious and original style of composition. Vladimir Horowitz, who has introduced all of the "War" Sonatas in this country, does a fine job on music that is highly suited to his style of playing. The recording is good...