CONCERT

Music of Serge Prokofiev

Celebrating the opening of the Prokofiev Archive at Columbia's
Rare Book and Manuscripts Library,
with soprano Erika Baikoff and pianists Sergei Dreznin and Barbara Nissman.

Friday, April 24, 2015, 7:30 pm
 

Artwork by Konstantin Sutyagin, "First Concerto" (2007)

Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, the Serge Prokofiev Foundation, and the Columbia Department of Music.

This recital of popular and rare works by Serge Prokofiev, featuring soprano Erika Baikoff and pianists Sergei Dreznin and Barbara Nissman, celebrates the opening of the Prokofiev Archive at Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscripts Library. The musicians will be joined by members of the Prokofiev family for performances of The Ugly Duckling, the Sixth Piano Sonata, and several rarely-heard works from the Archive.

"The Prokofiev family is pleased to celebrate the relocation of the Prokofiev Archive to Columbia University in New York City, where my grandparents first met some hundred years ago, and where his music has always been greeted so warmly by the music-loving public."

(Serguei Prokofieff, Jr.)

Simon Morrison, the Foundation's president and professor of musicology at Princeton University, says: "The works featured on the program for this recital--some heard for the first time in many decades--remind us of the many facets of Prokofiev's life and work that await discovery. Such discoveries will be considerably facilitated by the new consolidation of the composer's archives at Columbia."
The Serge Prokofiev Foundation was founded in 1983 by Lina Prokofiev (the composer's first wife) with the object of furthering the knowledge and appreciation of Prokofiev's life and works. In addition to overseeing the preservation of and access to the composer's personal archives, the Foundation publishes the scholarly journal Three Oranges, and is in the process of developing a new critical edition of the composer's works with Bärenreiter, among other digital projects.

Location:

The Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Avenue,
New York, NY 10027
(Just south of 118th Street)

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