Holy cow. Or maybe, gee whiz. As part of something called the Prokofiev World Tour and that sounded at times like world domination, the London Symphony Orchestra stopped by Orange County, courtesy of ...

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For a Russian composer, 1917 cannot have been an easy year to concentrate on work. There were strikes and anti-war marches that led, bit by bit, to the overthrow of the Czar. Food shortages in the big ...

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