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About the Author
Rita McAllister is a composer, pianist, educationalist, and writer on music. She holds a Research Chair at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge: her doctoral thesis was on the operas of Sergei Prokofiev. She has published extensively on Prokofiev and on many other aspects of Russian and Soviet music in journals, magazines, and music encyclopedias, and recently re-constructed the first version of Prokofiev's War and Peace, which was premiered in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Rostov-on-Don. Christina Guillaumier is a musicologist, pianist, and writer on music. She is Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music (London) and is a member of the Centre for Russian Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. A graduate of the Universities of St Andrews, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Oxford, her research has been awarded several grants and fellowships. She is a published author on Russian music, including Prokofiev's childhood compositions, his operas, and his early orchestral music.
Reviews
the reader is left with a thorough illustration of the vibrant world of Prokofiev research at the start of the third decade in the twenty-first century * Daniel Elphick, Transposition *
This book is an important contribution to the literature on Prokofiev...Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * D. Arnold, University of North Texas, CHOICE *
It deserves a place in all serious libraries and on the shelves of music lovers everywhere. * Arnold McMillin, Slavonic and East European Review *
the editors set out to complicate and contextualize a general perception of the composer as an ambition-compromised victim of Soviet power. The volume's list of contributors ranges in terms of both geography and professional focus; a refreshing number of the authors are practicing musicians ... There's a useful glossary of fundamental cultural and musical terms, but biographical identifications are in the texts. A foreword points readers to a website, on which more musical examples, illustrations and substantial appendices will appear -- a responsible, realistic scholarly model. * David Shengold, Opera News *
This rich and insightful collection is essential reading for anyone interested in Prokofiev and the world in which he lived. The essays in Rethinking Prokofiev offer new insight into unfamiliar aspects of Prokofiev's work and fresh and compelling looks at some more familiar ones. * Kevin Bartig, Professor of Music, Michigan State University *
A compelling reassessment of Prokofiev's career from start to finish that raises a poignant question: When we hear his music, do we hear what he heard? The answers here, derived from painstaking archival research, make plain a stark truth: Prokofiev was the most harrowed composer of the 20th century, and his music bears the marks of compromise, resistance, and resilience. * Simon Morrison, Professor Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190670771
Author Rita McAllister
Format Paperback
Page Count 544
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 728g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm * 31mm