The Serge Prokofieff whom we knew in the United States of America was gay, witty, mercurial, full of pranks and bonheur -- and very capable as a professional musician.

What was it to Prokofieff??

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 ''.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

So young Prokofieff was the darling of success: in his motherland ; ;

In this world-wide conscription of men, minds, and machines, Prokofieff was recalled to his native land.

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 ; ;

So Prokofieff was able to cultivate his musical talents and harvest a rich reward from them.

Prokofieff was able to adjust his creative personality to a swiftly changing world without losing his particular force and direction.

And in the Prokofieff C major Piano Concerto, with Zadel Skolovsky as soloist, he was an admirable partner.

However, its use for propulsion was first given serious thought by Thomas Townsend Brown in 1928 and later on by Major Alexander Prokofieff de Seversky, who contributed much to its basic physics and construction variations in 1960.

Prokofieff might well emerge as a cultural hero, who, by the force of his creative life, helped preserve the main stream of tradition, to which the surviving idioms of current experimentalism may be eventually added and integrated.

It is at this point in his life that the mature Prokofieff emerges.

Of course, it must not be forgotten that in achieving this historical feat, Prokofieff had the vast resources of his people behind him ; ;

In this changed world, Prokofieff settled to find himself, and to create for large national purpose.

It must be conceded that his native land provided Prokofieff with many of the necessary conditions for great creative incentive: economic security and cultural opportunities, incisive idioms, social fermentations for a new national ideology -- a sympathetic public and a large body of performers especially trained to fulfill his purpose.

and with sober purpose, because the development of Prokofieff personifies, in many ways, the course of music in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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

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

Here, Prokofieff became a workman in the vineyards of Socialism -- producing music for the masses.

But no: Prokofieff grew.

And with what resource did Prokofieff back up his Credo of words -- with torrents of powerful music.

Prokofieff never forsakes his medium for the cause of experimentation per se.

Nor can anyone be certain that Prokofieff would have done better, or even as well, under different circumstances.

When Prokofieff forged his new clarity of `` lucid, straightforward music, so difficult to compose '', he shaped his talents to his purpose.

Thus in Prokofieff the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics produced one of the great composers of the Twentieth Century.

And the Prokofieff Seventh Sonata had the combination of romanticism and modern bravura that Prokofieff needs.

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