Prokofiev's style was edgy and lyrical, a combination that made for very effective film music. The first film score he wrote was for a movie called "Lieutenant Kije." The Los Angeles Philharmonic ...
Sergei Prokofiev was one of seven Soviet composers (among the others: Khachaturian and Shostakovich) denounced in 1948 “for formalistic and anti-democratic tendencies in music which are alien to the ...