NEW YORK — In 1935, Sergei Prokofiev made a devil’s bargain: He moved to the Soviet Union, chasing a lucrative offer to write any opera or ballet he wanted and an opportunity to take command of the ...

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CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Orchestra has announced a new partnership with Apple Music Classical, beginning with an exclusive release of Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6 in spatial audio. The ...

Classical music columnist Fran Hoepfner joins us to discuss Prokofiev's youthful piano composition "Toccata in D Minor" and his famous ballet... Why November Is A Good Month To Celebrate Composer ...

Sergei Prokofiev was an established musical revolutionary of 26 when the Bolsheviks spread flame and famine across Russia in 1917. He had outjangled Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in his pagan Scythian ...

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At 60, tired, ailing and scarred by writing to please his Soviet masters, Sergei Prokofiev, Russia’s finest modern composer, sat down to write his Seventh Symphony. His aim, he told Pravda, was to ...

Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev passed away on March 5, 1953, an event that received very little news coverage—Joseph Stalin decided to die on the very same date. Stalin not only hijacked ...

When Thomas Søndergård was named music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in 2022, there was some curiosity among audiences as to whether this Dane would bring us more music from his native country, ...