"'To go to America!' Here was wretchedness; there life brimming over.... Such was the flag under which I greeted the New Year. Surely it will not disappoint my hopes'" With these words Sergey Prokofiev closed his diary for the revolutionary year...
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"'To go to America!' Here was wretchedness; there life brimming over.... Such was the flag under which I greeted the New Year. Surely it will not disappoint my hopes'" With these words Sergey Prokofiev closed his diary for the revolutionary year...
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Add this copy of Sergey Prokofiev: Behind the Mask Diaries 1915-1923 to cart. $47.25, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Cornell University Press.
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Like new with instances of marginalia by a knowledgable hand and a moderate amount of very light pencil underlining throughout. Black cloth board with with washed tan dust jacket and bw photo. xxiii, 775 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, map, portraits. contents as follows: The Diaries--1915--1916--1917--1918--1919--1 1. Prokofiev's Notes on Characters in The Gambler, based on the descriptions in Dostoyevsky's novella--Appendix 2. Description of 'The Seven'--Appendix 3. 'The Russian Composer Prokofiev in Japan' / Eleonora Sablina--Appendix 4. Musical America, 28 September 1918 / Frederick H. Martens--Appendix 5. Interview in Vechernye Birzhevye Novosti, 12 May 1916--Appendix 6. 'Fantastic Lollypops' / Ben Hecht. "This second volume of Prokofiev's diary records an astonishing record of artistic accomplishment against a backdrop of cataclysmic change. The composer dodges gunfire in Petrograd during the February Revolution, but as a rule pays attention to political events only as they affect him personally. Composition and performance are the main concerns, along with the persistent and ultimately failed struggle to arrange a performance of his opera The Gambler. As in his Conservatory years, he also reveals his own aesthetic principles as he reacts to the work of others, sometimes with dark humor ("bored out of my life" by Mahler's 7th Symphony, "it is like kissing a stillborn child.")."--Jacket.
Add this copy of Diaries 1915-1923: Behind the Mask to cart. $49.44, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Cornell University Press.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
Add this copy of Diaries 1915? 1923: Behind the Mask to cart. $96.37, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Cornell University Press.
