At the end of his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1963, Erich Leinsdorf observed the 10th anniversary of the death of Sergei Prokofiev by making him the focus of the ...

Not long before Prokofiev started the lengthy negotiations that were the precursor to his writing Romeo and Juliet, he had taken on a job composing the music for a new film. It was directed by ...

The evening starts off with the lighthearted Lieutenant Kijé Suite, a score composed for the 1934 film Lieutenant Kijé. The suite’s Russian dance motif has been used in many popular songs and movies.

Appearing first in Russian literature, the military “Lieutenant Kije” was born from an administrative error and his reputation grew as people said how much they ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Both are rare examples of films whose music has found a stable place in the ...

Lieutenant Kijé is a character created by a bureaucratic administrative error yet admirers inflate this non-existent military man's reputation to the point that the ...

Amid the mass outpouring of grief – real and manufactured – for the dictator, it was not possible to hold the composer’s memorial service at the headquarters of the Soviet Composers’ Union, as would ...

Few things in life give me more pleasure than having a cup of classical music coffee on a sunny San Diego morning. If I actually drank coffee it would probably be even better. Even so, going about a ...