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The answer is, `` Yes ''!!

Certainly, America took Prokofieff and his Classical Symphony seriously, and with a good deal of pleasure.

His life-long friend, Serge Koussevitzky, gave unreservedly of his praise and brilliant performances in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C.,, to which he added broadcastings and recordings for the whole nation.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

We attended the premieres of his concertos, symphonies, and suites ; ;

we studied, taught, and performed his piano sonatas, chamber music, gavottes, and marches ; ;

we bought his records and played them in our schools and universities.

We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth-Century Composers.