Sergei Prokofiev in New York City - 1 October, 1918
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 18 September [1 October] 1918, page 340:
Today we continued the negotiations with the mechanical-piano company, Duo-Art. I played some of my things so that they could see whether they could satisfactorily reproduce them. As an experiment I played the Gavotte from the 'Classical' Symphony, and three minutes later they played back to me my performance, of course without any refinements and rather characterless, but all my accents, ritardandi and wrong notes were there. I was afraid they might exploit the Gavotte and therefore played the middle section in the wrong key in case I needed some evidence to establish their guilt. But when… more >>
http://data.open.ac.uk/led/person/Sergey+Prokofiev/1450307447086, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 18 September [1 October] 1918, p. 340. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1451781992196 accessed: 25 December, 2024
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Gavotte
written by Lulli, Bach, Sergei Prokofiev |
performed by Sergei Prokofiev |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1 October, 1918 |
Medium | playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |