Students of the Bestuzhev Institute in Saint Petersburg et al. - 23 November, 1913, at night
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 23 November 1913, page 549:
At half past ten a student in a car came to take me to the evening of contemporary literature and music at the Bestuzhev Institute. When I got there, Igor Severyanin was reading - or rather mumbling - his verses. The students raved and howled in ecstasy, endlessly demanding encores.
After the interval I played my pieces, on a fairly dreadful piano whose forte was tolerable but whose piano was execrable. Yulia Weisberg had warned me to choose a reasonably accessible repertoire for these musically non-specialist female students, so I played … more >>
Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 23 November 1913. In Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries 1907-1914 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 549. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1446508964162 accessed: 22 November, 2024
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Little compositions
written by Vyacheslav Karatygin |
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Piano pieces
written by Nikolai Medtner, Sergei Prokofiev |
performed by Sergei Prokofiev |
Songs
written by Igor Stravinsky |
performed by Gury Stravinsky |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 23 November, 1913, at night |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |