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Author Owen Belcher is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the UMKC Conservatory. March 5 marks the 69th anniversary of the death of Ukrainian-born composer Sergei Prokofiev. Most people think of ...

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 ...

Two new faces and some remarkable music: The Seattle Symphony offered inspiring performances in the first of two concerts led by conductor David Zinman. It seems odd to consider Zinman (who turns 80 ...

"I really didn't do much preparation. I think I was just lucky. And I really just thought to myself, 'I'm here to learn, I've got nothing to lose. So I don't have to worry about the results.'" With ...

Prokofiev: Symphonies 1 and 2, Sinfonietta Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits (Onyx) Only two of Prokofiev's seven symphonies seem to be performed with any regularity. Of the remainder, ...

FORT WORTH — In 1726 London, an academy was formed to play what then was considered “ancient music” — that is, at least a century old. By those terms, most of what modern symphony orchestras play is ...

The Leipzig Gewandhausorchester commissioned a symphony from Hanns Eisler in 1959. Adept at recycling, his intention was to reuse and rearrange music from the film scores written during his last years ...

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Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Paul Hindemith: two Russians and a German, one a repatriated son of Mother Russia and two permanent exiles from their homelands. These three important 20th ...