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Prokofiev, The diaries of a life

Posted on the May 28th, 2009 under Musical education,Prokofiev

Like Stravinsky (his senior by ten years) and Shostakovich (his junior by fifteen), Prokofiev was a product of the Saint Petersburg (later Petrograd/Leningrad) Conservatoire and the city’s rich cultural life. This visit and the arduous journey across war-torn Europe are described in riveting ::More

Musicon / Musical education / Romanticism is against formalism

Romanticism is against formalism

Posted on the March 1st, 2009 under Musical education

As applied to literature Romantic was an adjective affected by certain poets, first in Germany, then in France, who wished to introduce a style of thought and expression different from that of those who followed old models. Intrinsically, of course, the term does not imply any such opposition but ::More