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 ...

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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 ...

Fifty years after his death, the integration of Prokofiev's music into our concert life is still lumpy and uneven. A few reliable standbys maintain their place as cornerstones of the repertoire, while ...

Sergei Prokofiev is, perhaps, one of the best-known composers of the 20th century, if only for Peter and the Wolf, which serves as many children's introduction to classical music. Symphony orchestras ...

Sergei Prokofiev was a composer from his earliest childhood, but he was also a formidable piano virtuoso, known for his steely technique and ferocious intensity at the keyboard. Many of those ...