A world premiere production of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's "Music for Athletes," recently restored by Princeton music scholar Simon Morrison, will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 17, in ...

During Stalin's Great Terror, propaganda was inextricable from artists' lives. When Soviet officials organized an athletics spectacle in 1939 to mobilize youth, complete with 30,000 "physical ...

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On this week’s episode, we host a birthday party for Sergei Prokofiev, who was born 126 years ago this past Sunday. We’ll hear an hour of music by the Russian composer written throughout his career.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The past couple of decades have been hard on Prokofiev. Although he was ...

The December 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” explores the music of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. The piece is so popular at classical ...

Boston University Music Professor Jeremy Yudkin shares his fascinating knowledge of music, music history, composers, orchestras with concert-goers and music lovers ahead of select performances by the ...

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Pianist Beatrice Rana brings special energy to everything she touches, but at her Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recital Monday, she was best with music that’s unexplainable. In contrast to the ...

Move over, St. Jude. When it comes to musical challenges, Valery Gergiev is the real saint of lost causes - a conductor who can tackle a piece no one else believes in and make a strong, persuasive ...