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2022-08-01 07:05:15
Sergei Prokofiev: Scythian Suite Context Sergei Prokofiev composed his Scythian Suite in 1915. The music was originally composed for the ballet Ala i Lolli – a story that takes place alongside the Scythians. Prokofiev received the commission from Sergei Diaghilev, he actually rejected the score before Prokofiev could even finish […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2022-02-11 07:00:34
Prokofiev’s Scythian Suite: Unused Music for a “Barbaric” Ballet
In 1915, the 23-year-old Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his first ballet score. Commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, the work, which was given the title Ala and Lolli, moved deep into Slavic mythology. It depicted an epic battle between the forces of light and darkness, represented by the sun god, Veles, and the grotesque monster, Chuzbog. The ballet’s setting centered around the Scythians, a prehistoric nomadic tribe which, beginning around ...
2022-01-08 01:37:37
BizJournals.com: From outreaches to piano competitions, CCM professor on mission to elevate Black talent
[…] it What kinds of challenges do you see in reaching underserved communities? When I go to some school that doesn't have a music program that doesn't have any consistent or sustained engagement with music and I play and I talk to them, I’ve exposed them to something. They have something to think about and imagine. But if they're interested, there’s no pathway for follow-up. I was in Mobile, Ala., at a school where they had an existing relationship with an (orchestra) strings program, but they didn’t have a piano. A piano had to be brought in. I asked the school’s principal, the (people from) the orchestra and the piano store, “What can be done so that this piano doesn’t leave here?” By the end of the week, they’d worked something out so that piano stayed in that school. […]
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