Serge Prokofiev

Harpo Marx — the "silent" Marx brother — can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.

Tatiana Dorokhova, silver medalist and audience favorite at San Antonio's 2024 Gurwitz International Piano Competition, has just released her first album, featuring music by Sergei Prokofiev and operatic transcriptions by Franz Liszt.

Classical music columnist Fran Hoepfner joins us to discuss Prokofiev's youthful piano composition "Toccata in D Minor" and his famous ballet "Romeo and Juliet."

If you are a fan of ballet, or perhaps a more free-form style of dance, this is a great time to be in San Antonio. Plus, if you are willing to take a road…

If you fell in love with oranges, would you scour the world to find them? Prokofiev's absurdist, citrus-scented opera features zany plot lines, curious characters and one little march that made it big.

An American conductor explains why Russian music suits her Sao Paolo orchestra.

The opportunity afforded me this year by the double-Prokofiev season of the Houston Ballet has been terrific. Not only did I have the chance to see…

Andrea talks with our Cultural Concierge, Jesse Kornbluth. This week Kornbluth wants everyone to watch the 1938 Russian film Alexander Nevsky, which he says has one of the greatest soundtracks in film history.

A new version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf is now available in the United States. The music comes in a boxed set with a storybook illustrated by Bono. The rendition does away with the orchestra and instead brings the story to life with a mandolin, banjo, accordion, and percussion of all kinds. NPR's Melissa Block talks with musician Gavin Friday. (Publisher: Bloomsbury USA)