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Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev.(Book review)
Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev. By Stephen D. Press. Burlington, VT: Ash-gate, 2006. [xvii, 294 p. ISBN 0-7546-0404-0. $99.95.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliography, index.
From specialists in Russian music to devotees of ballet, most music lovers are acquainted to at least some degree with Sergei Prokofiev's mature ballets of the Soviet period. Masterpieces such as Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella have graced theater playbills and concert programs with welcome regularity, while our piano students have stumbled their way, with varying success, through "The Dance of the Knights." The body of scholarly literature on these works has also been growing ...
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