By Donald Waxman Music quiz: You are presented with a single page of an upcoming chamber music concert in South Florida listing the titles, composers and instrumentation of the works to be played, but no mention of the name of the chamber music series or who are the performers. The program consists of Tomaso Albinoni’s Concerto in C for trumpet, oboes and bassoons; André … [Read more...]
‘Alexander Nevsky’ concert unusual but compelling
In his recent study of Sergei Prokofiev's Soviet career, the musicologist Simon Morrison reveals that the composer was a huge movie buff, and that for one tantalizing moment, had a chance to do a film score in Hollywood for Paramount. It didn't happen, but Prokofiev never stopped trying to write theater and film scores in the Soviet Union, and with Sergei Eisenstein in 1938, … [Read more...]