Sergei Prokofiev in Saint Petersburg Conservatory - 15 December, 1912
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 15 December 1912, page 261:
I rose late and did little during the morning. I looked through the score of Terrible* and then went to the rehearsal for our concert. There was a noisy hubbub in the Conservatoire and the hall was full to capacity, in short the Conservatoire was present in corpore, the way I like it best. The rehearsal started with Terrible; I went on the platform (that is to say the stage; there being no platform the orchestra had been set out on the stage, which made it sound dreadful), but some rearrangement of the desks was going on,so I sat waiting on the lid of the piano with my back to the hall, a … more >>
Sergei Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 15 December 1912. In Sergey Prokofiev, and Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries, volume 3 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 261. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1428688324634 accessed: 7 December, 2024
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Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
written by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov |
performed by Miron Polyakin |
Excerpts from Ivan the Terrible
written by Georges Bizet |
performed by Sergei Prokofiev |
Piano Concerto
written by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Aleksandr Glazunov |
performed by Students of the Imperial Conservatoire, Boris Zakharov |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 15 December, 1912 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
* Excerpts from Ivan the Terrible, which Prokofiev was conducting in this programme. ** Probably Rimsky-Korsakov 'Capriccio Espagnole'; probably performed by Miron Polyakin.