Love can be an extremely powerful motivator. For more than a decade beginning in the mid-1950s, the Russian artist Oleg Prokofiev hid his abstract works in the hope of receiving permission from the ...

Princeton may seem an unlikely place for major revivals of banned music from the Soviet era, but with scholars Simon Morrison and Caryl Emerson on the university’s faculty, it becomes much less ...

Soviet pianist and composer Sergei Prokofiev died 60 years ago, on March 5, 1953, at the age of 61. He had been ill for many years and may have died from a cerebral hemorrhage. His death happened to ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the death of Sergei Prokofiev, the Russian composer who produced one of the most influential modern musical works about Jewish cultural identity, although his ...

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 ...

I SEE myself sitting in the hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (or was it in the Great Hall of Nobility?) at a concert to the memory of Scriabin. This was a concert given by Rachmaninoff for the ...

The three volumes of Sergey Prokofiev's diaries, now complete in Anthony Phillips's compelling translation, provide what is probably the most complete picture we possess of any significant ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Soviet photographers did little to soften the image of Sergei Prokofiev. The composer's oval face always appears aloof, his gaze ...

Sergei Prokofiev is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century... and a bit of a cold fish. The composer's diaries, held by Soviet authorities for decades, will soon be published in ...

"Prokofiev and Shostakovich under Stalin". It seemed a timely series. At least for two of its three protagonists. Perversely, the fates decreed that Sergei Prokofiev share his deathday (5 March 1953, ...