Sergei Prokofiev - 5 February, 1916, at night
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 5 February 1916, pages 82-83:
In the evening I went to see Coates in his comfortable and handsome wooden house out on the No. 21 tram route. He had invited me so that I could hear his opera Assurbanipal. The first half of this opera was too full of whole-tone harmonies and progressions, but the second half was extremely entertaining , although I cannot claim to have absorbed it very precisely since the six and eight-part harmony he uses throughout does not help the ear to orientate itself instantaneously, especially in a performance on the piano that necessarily left out half of what was written. I drew … more >>
http://data.open.ac.uk/led/person/Sergey+Prokofiev/1450307447086, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 5 February 1916, p. 82-83. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1450972173773 accessed: 13 October, 2024
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Assurbanipal
written by Albert Coates |
performed by Albert Coates |
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Date/Time | 5 February, 1916, at night |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |