Sergei Prokofiev - 11 February, 1916, at night

from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 11 February 1916, page 87:

I could not restrain myself from boasting about the telegram* at that evening's 'Contemporaries' concert. The event itself was as drab and boring as could be, inflicting on us pieces by Akimenko, Yulia Weisberg and other such prunes, while that alley-cat of a Zakharov had once again failed to learn Myaskovsky's Second Sonata**.

cite as

http://data.open.ac.uk/led/person/Sergey+Prokofiev/1450307447086, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 11 February 1916, p. 87. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1451151475889 accessed: 22 November, 2024

location of experience:

Listeners

Sergei Prokofiev
performer, Composer, Musician
1891-1953

Listening to

hide composers
Unnamed compositions
written by Kurt Weill, Fyodor Akimenko, Yulia Weisberg

Experience Information

Date/Time 11 February, 1916, at night
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Notes

* a telegram from Diaghilev, notifying S.P. of the first payment for his commissioned ballet. ** It is unclear if Boris Zakharov withdrew from the scheduled performance of Nikolay Myaskovsky's Second Sonata or played it badly.


Originally submitted by isobel.1111 on Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:37:56 +0000
Approved on Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:32:35 +0100