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These performances begin with an informative multimedia first half that takes the audience back in time to World War II in Soviet Russia. During the war, the Russian composer played a significant role ...

There was a good reason for Augustin Hadelich to join the audience for Prokoviev's 5th Symphony. I was at the Saturday night concert which meant Augustin had already heard the Prokofiev on Friday. He ...

THINGS can move rapidly in the music business. It's only recently that Marin Alsop was announced as the new principal conductor of Brazil's Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra with effect from next season, ...

On the night of a thunderstorm, the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra delivered an astounding performance of Russian composers Sergei Prokofiev and Alexander Glazunov, filling the performance ...

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Some time ago I reviewed a disc by the Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, and expressed doubt about the quality of what I heard. This was sacrilege: for many music fans, Gergiev is a god-like ...

Marina Frolova-Walker recommends a version of Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony in Building a Library. Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No 5 in B-flat major in just a month in the summer of 1944 during ...

Most commanding of the still-active conductors who flourished in the Soviet Union is the Dadaistic Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, 75, well-known in the West for his wide repertory, dislike of rehearsals and ...

At the end of his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1963, Erich Leinsdorf observed the 10th anniversary of the death of Sergei Prokofiev by making him the focus of the ...

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The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra has announced the star-studded lineup for their 2018-2019 season. The Classical Series features works from Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, as ...