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TWO MORE RUSSIAN CRITIQUES
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
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126 MUSIC AND LVETTP'RS
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TWO MIORE RUSSIAN CRITIQUES 427
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428 MUSIC AND LETTERS
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TWO MORE RUSSIAN CRITIQUES 429
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430 =MUSIC AND LETTERS
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TWO MORE RUSSIAN CRITIQUES 431
Having regard to history, who will warrant that fifty years hence
Prokofiev will be better remembered than the once fashionable and
famous Kalkbrenner and Herz are to-day? Greatness of spirit has
always been the only guarantee against the historical shattering of a
musical genius. And there is none of that greatness of spirit in
Prokofiev.
LEONID SABANEEV.
frans. by S. WV. PRIRn.
THE COMPOSER-CRITIC
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