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At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

yet was never caught up in it -- never a slave to its academic dialectics.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.