In an early "Peanuts" strip, Charlie Brown says to Schroeder that the music they're listening to is "the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard," to which Schroeder crushingly replies "uh huh...It is kind of nice now and then to listen to something semi-classical." One wonders if they were listening to Prokofiev, a composer capable of achieving enormous emotional depths in his ballets and immense musical monuments in his symphonies and who, on the side, also wrote some of the most successful semi-classical music of ...
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In an early "Peanuts" strip, Charlie Brown says to Schroeder that the music they're listening to is "the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard," to which Schroeder crushingly replies "uh huh...It is kind of nice now and then to listen to something semi-classical." One wonders if they were listening to Prokofiev, a composer capable of achieving enormous emotional depths in his ballets and immense musical monuments in his symphonies and who, on the side, also wrote some of the most successful semi-classical music of the twentieth century. The disc entitled Prokofiev Greatest Hits features his best-known and best-loved semi-classical works including the March from The Love for Three Oranges, which became the theme song for long-running radio show The FBI in Peace and War; the Lieutenant Kiji Suite, which came from the film score of the same name; the Processional from Peter and the Wolf, which came from the popular children's folk tale; and, of course, the Classical Symphony, one of the most...
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