Prokofiev in a sentence

Diaghilev commissioned Prokofiev's first ballet, Ala and Lolli; but when Prokofiev brought the work in progress to him in Italy in 1915 he rejected it as "non-Russian".

Prokofiev composed the score for Eisenstein's film and Eisenstein reciprocated by designing sets for an operatic rendition of War and Peace that Prokofiev was developing.

After the current program of works by Rossini, Magnus Lindberg and Beethoven, he leads music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Prokofiev and — like the Mahler, a prime assignment — Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” starting next Thursday.

Violinist Hyunjee Chung and pianist Kyunghoon Kim will perform works by Beethoven, Yun, and Prokofiev.

Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, grandly classical in conception, with dashes of the composer’s wily idiosyncrasies, was played with lush strings and enveloping brasses.

Music by Prokofiev and choreographed by Helgi Tomasson.

All told, in the capable hands of Nicola Benedetti and Alexei Grynuk, this Prokofiev sonata came across as one this composer’s sunniest, most accessible works.

John Williams’s score borrows from Mozart, Wagner and Prokofiev to create something entirely unique, and it takes huge artistry and athleticism for the orchestra to nail their cues as the film unfolds.

The programme features the London premiere of the Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach’s symphonic poem Icarus, along with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet: Suite.

The return of artistic partners Denk, Cohen, and Pekka Kuusisto in programs that will include Schumann’s Piano Concerto, Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, Mozart’s 40th Symphony and Prokofiev’s “Classical” Symphony.

When you think that it's Bourne, Brotherston and Prokofiev in this amalgam of show-dance and ballet roots, one that is all balanced on a sturdy base of caractère, you understand its particular brand of theater.

Sergei Prokofiev is 5-1, and they are heading out onto the track.

What else would explain the loss of audibility of the upper strings in Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé Suite, despite the players’ visibly valiant attempts?

A vestige of this survives in Sergei Prokofiev 's use of the clef for the cor anglais, as in his symphonies.

Believing that Russia "had no use for music at the moment", Prokofiev decided to try his fortunes in America until the turmoil in his homeland had passed.

Eisenstein corresponded with Prokofiev from Alma Ata, and was joined by him there in 1942.

He had been chronically ill for the prior eight years; citation the precise nature of Prokofiev's terminal illness remains uncertain.

In October that year, he had a car crash while driving his family back to Paris from their holiday: as the car turned over, Prokofiev pulled some muscles on his left hand.

In the early 1930s, the Great Depression diminished opportunities for Prokofiev's ballets and operas to be staged in America and western Europe.

Lake contributes five songs he co-wrote with Sinfield, and Palmer's includes two covers of classical pieces by Sergei Prokofiev and Bach.