A group of inventive kids launches a website to help others find answers to their questions. When a visitor inquires about the true meaning of Christmas, they embark on a journey through Old Testament prophecies. Their exploration uncovers a captivating narrative revealed through a series of "S" words. Featuring imaginative characters, witty dialogue, and engaging music, this children's Christmas musical promises an enjoyable performance experience for kids.
The first numbered symphony by Prokofiev was largely composed during a retreat from the turmoil of Petrograd amidst the February revolution. Drawing inspiration from Haydn and Mozart, it showcases a clear and light orchestration reminiscent of Mozart's style. The symphony was completed on September 10, 1917, and premiered on April 18, 1918, with Prokofiev himself conducting the newly established State Orchestra, previously the Tsar's Court Orchestra.
Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries 1907-1914: Prodigious Youthis an inexhaustibly rich
portrait of one of the most vibrantperiods in the whole of Western
Art,indispensable for all lovers of Prokofiev.
Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist, gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he left Russia following the 1917 Revolution, his diaries were recovered from the family flat in Petrograd and later hidden (at considerable personal risk by Myaskovsky). Prokofiev himself smuggled them out of the country after his first return to the Soviet Union in 1927. The later diaries, written in the West, were brought back by legal decree after the composer's death, to be kept in a special, inaccessible section of the Russian State Archive. Eventually Prokofiev's son Sviatoslav was allowed to transcribe the voluminous contents; when he and his son Sergei eventually emigrated to Paris they undertook the gigantic task of reproducing the partially encoded manuscript in an intelligible form. Volume 1 covers the bulk of the Prokofiev's years at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire ending with his triumphant graduation. Simultaneously attached to and exasperated by the traditions exemplified at this time by such famous men as Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Lyadov, Tcherepnin, the relentlessly brash young genius relishes the power of his talent to irritate, challenge and finally overcome the establishment, alongside unusually candid revelations of the all-too-normal preoccupations of a young man flexing his muscles in society. Taken as a whole, the Diaries represent an inexhaustibly rich portrait of one of the most vibrant periods in the whole of Western art, peopled by virtually every musician and artist of note. They constitute both an indispensable and an entertaining source of reference for all scholars and lovers of Prokofiev's music.
L'extraordinaire histoire de Pierre et le Loup racontée par la célèbre spécialiste de la musique classique Eve Ruggiéri. Un conte musical où tous les personnages sont incarnés par un instrument de l'orchestre : le petit Pierre, par les cordes, l'oiseau qui est léger, par la flûte, le canard, par le hautbois, le chat qui glisse sur ses coussinets de velours, par la clarinette...
Eine literarische Sensation: Der Komponist Sergej Prokofjev als begnadeter Erzähler!In der Wohnung Sergej Eisensteins fand der Gitarrist Lucian Plessner in einer vergilbten Zeitschrift Erzählungen des großen Komponisten Sergej Prokofjev und landete damit eine literarische Sensation: Lange war nicht bekannt, dass der Komponist auch schriftstellerisch tätig war. Auf seinen unzähligen Reisen schrieb er humorvoll-skurrile Geschichten, die die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse seiner Zeit aufs Korn nehmen: Da begibt sich der Eiffelturm aus Sehnsucht nach dem Turm der Türme auf Wanderschaft nach Babylon, ein eitler Offizier und ein verliebter Maler wetteifern um eine Frau und legen sich dafür mit Schopenhauer an, oder ein Ingenieur verliert seine Frau und den Verstand. In seinem erzählerischen Werk, das hier vollständig vorliegt, spiegeln sich Prokofjevs Vorliebe für märchenhafte Stoffe, Zeiteinflüsse wie Dada und Surrealismus, aber auch die russische Erzähltradition eines Dostojewski, Gogol oder Tschechow. (Amazon.de)
