The evening starts off with the lighthearted Lieutenant Kijé Suite, a score composed for the 1934 film Lieutenant Kijé. The suite’s Russian dance motif has been used in many popular songs and movies.

At the end of his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1963, Erich Leinsdorf observed the 10th anniversary of the death of Sergei Prokofiev by making him the focus of the ...

Not long before Prokofiev started the lengthy negotiations that were the precursor to his writing Romeo and Juliet, he had taken on a job composing the music for a new film. It was directed by ...

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 ...

If imagining could only make it so... but what if it actually did? Lieutenant Kije wasn't real — the Russian Army just thought he was. So it became a spiral of stories and falsehoods that gave life to ...

Amid the mass outpouring of grief – real and manufactured – for the dictator, it was not possible to hold the composer’s memorial service at the headquarters of the Soviet Composers’ Union, as would ...

The December 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” explores the music of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. The piece is so popular at classical ...

American pianist Frederic Chiu consistently sweeps away listeners with his performances of the music of Sergei Prokofiev. It was no different at his recital Monday for the University of Houston Moores ...