Kevin Bartig Books
Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky
By Kevin Bartig
Audiences have long enjoyed Sergei Prokofiev's musical score for Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. The historical epic cast a thirteenth-century Russian victory over invading Teutonic...
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Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film
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Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions....
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The Rite of spring at 100
By Maureen Carr, Severine Neff, Gretchen Grace Horlacher, Stephen Walsh
When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography...
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The Rite of spring at 100
By Maureen Carr, Severine Neff, Gretchen Grace Horlacher, Stephen Walsh
When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography...
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