Word: prokolieff
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sultry spring day, few things can be more depressing than having to sit stiffly through the elephantine moods of Brahms or Bruckner; nothing can be more dismal than an evening of Hindemith, or a session with Prokolieff's latest cello sonats. The kind of music one dismisses as superficial in the winter becomes a treat to drowsy summer appetites, while the type of concert-going invited by cold weather becomes absolutely intolerable as the thermometer this eighty-ish. The problem of giving light music comfortably and informally is solved around Boston in a variety of ways...
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