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- catalog abstract "This volume collects for the first time in English the most representative and enlightening of Prokofiev's letters, including some previously suppressed missives that have never before been published. Expertly translated and annotated by Harlow Robinson, the correspondence presented here covers Prokofiev's earliest years at St. Petersburg Conservatory, his extensive worldwide travels, and his return to Moscow. Among the correspondents are childhood friend Vera Alpers, harpist Eleonora Damskaya, ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev, theatrical director Vsevolod Meyerhold, Soviet critic Boris Asafiev, composers Vernon Duke and Nikolai Miaskovsky, soprano Nina Koshetz, musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky, violinist Jascha Heifetz, conductor Serge Koussevitsky, and film director Sergei Eisenstein. Prokofiev vividly describes, often with dramatic flair and a quirky sense of humor, concerts, performances, his compositions, political events, and meetings with other musicians and composers. His observations are peppered with musical gossip as well as eccentric, original, and disarmingly apolitical insights.".
- catalog alternative "Correspondence. Selections. English".
- catalog contributor b10740904.
- catalog contributor b10740905.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Among the correspondents are childhood friend Vera Alpers, harpist Eleonora Damskaya, ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev, theatrical director Vsevolod Meyerhold, Soviet critic Boris Asafiev, composers Vernon Duke and Nikolai Miaskovsky, soprano Nina Koshetz, musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky, violinist Jascha Heifetz, conductor Serge Koussevitsky, and film director Sergei Eisenstein. Prokofiev vividly describes, often with dramatic flair and a quirky sense of humor, concerts, performances, his compositions, political events, and meetings with other musicians and composers. His observations are peppered with musical gossip as well as eccentric, original, and disarmingly apolitical insights.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Letters to Vera Alpers -- Letters to Eleonora Damskaya -- Prokofiev and Sergei Diaghilev -- Letters to Vsevolod Meyerhold -- Letters to Boris Asafiev -- Letters to Vernon Duke -- American Trio : letters to Nina Koshetz, Nicolas Slonimsky, Jascha Heifetz -- Letters to Serge and Natalia Koussevitsky -- Prokofiev and Sergei Eisenstein -- Letters to Nikolai Miaskovsky.".
- catalog description "This volume collects for the first time in English the most representative and enlightening of Prokofiev's letters, including some previously suppressed missives that have never before been published. Expertly translated and annotated by Harlow Robinson, the correspondence presented here covers Prokofiev's earliest years at St. Petersburg Conservatory, his extensive worldwide travels, and his return to Moscow.".
- catalog extent "xx, 348 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Selected letters of Sergei Prokofiev.".
- catalog identifier "1555533477 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Selected letters of Sergei Prokofiev.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Northeastern University Press,".
- catalog relation "Selected letters of Sergei Prokofiev.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union".
- catalog subject "780/.92 B 21".
- catalog subject "Composers Soviet Union Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "ML410.P865 A4 1998".
- catalog subject "Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 Correspondence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Letters to Vera Alpers -- Letters to Eleonora Damskaya -- Prokofiev and Sergei Diaghilev -- Letters to Vsevolod Meyerhold -- Letters to Boris Asafiev -- Letters to Vernon Duke -- American Trio : letters to Nina Koshetz, Nicolas Slonimsky, Jascha Heifetz -- Letters to Serge and Natalia Koussevitsky -- Prokofiev and Sergei Eisenstein -- Letters to Nikolai Miaskovsky.".
- catalog title "Correspondence. Selections. English".
- catalog title "Selected letters of Sergei Prokofiev / translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harlow Robinson.".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".