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Why November Is A Good Month To Celebrate Composer Sergei Prokofiev

Published November 30, 2017 at 11:40 AM CST

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Composer Sergei Prokofiev. (AFP/Getty Images)

Classical music columnist Fran Hoepfner ( @franhoepfner) has decided that November is a month to celebrate 20th-century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.

Hoepfner joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to discuss Prokofiev’s youthful piano composition “Toccata in D Minor” and his famous ballet “Romeo and Juliet.”