title: About Serge Prokofiev’s American Tour at the End of 1920
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metadata.value: Savkina, Natalia
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metadata.value: 2022-05-05T14:53:40Z
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metadata.value: 2022-05-05T14:53:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Savkina, Natalia. “About Serge Prokofiev’s American Tour at the End of 1920”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 1 (2022): 33–49.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36261
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metadata.value: Prokofiev’s enormous correspondence reflects a universe that is densely populated and reflects
  the enormous amount of his correspondence. The multifaceted nature of his inner-self
  is revealed in his letters to different people, which displays great diversity in style. Varied
  accents and perspectives appear in his letters: some personality traits come forward, new facts emerge, some creative aspects appear in unaccustomed ways. Prokofiev’s fourteen letters to
  his mother chronologically cover a little more than the last two months out of three that he
  spent in America in the winter of 1920. One important feature of Prokofiev’s nature is reflected
  in letters to his mother: passion for travel. He moves constantly and still enjoys a difficult
  life, full of hassle, on tour. His letters to his mother were sent from the Savoiya crossing the
  Pacific Ocean, from the train to California, and from New York City, Chicago, Appleton, San
  Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles. These documented sources are interesting not only
  because of their content. Prokofiev was writing to a person who had almost lost her sight. The
  composer’s usual briefness of utterance is maximized there. The informational content of this
  cursive writing is extremely high, and the short messages and postcards written in large round
  letters condense massive informative layers: the young musician’s life, the staging of his operas
  (about which he works many angles), tragic backwashes of the Russian history, signals from
  the past lost in Saint Petersburg flat where his papers had been missed, commissioned and
  uncommissioned works, an exhibit hall of nearly outlined characters, and a constant lack of
  money. This is a counterpoint voice to the Diary.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 12; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Serge Prokofiev
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Maria Prokofiev
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mikhail Larionov
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: America in 1920
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russians in America
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Prokofiev’s friends
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metadata.value: Prokofiev-pianist
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metadata.value: Prokofiev-voyager
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metadata.value: About Serge Prokofiev’s American Tour at the End of 1920
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