Robinson offers many insightful views of Prokofiev: "His music might be filled with 'wrong notes,' but it was resolutely tonal all the same; he might fill sonatas with dissonances and shocking rhythms, but he still called them sonatas and wanted them to be considered as such.

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Harlow Loomis Robinson (born 20 September 1950) is a Matthews Distinguished University Professor of History at Northeastern University who specializes in Soviet and Russian cultural history.

Harlow Loomis Robinson (born 20 September 1950) is a Matthews Distinguished University Professor of History at Northeastern University who specializes in Soviet and Russian cultural history, with writings on Soviet film and performing arts. Robinson was born in Bristol, Connecticut. During high school, inspired by the film adaption of Dr. Zhivago, he started studying Russian on a program to Cornell University. He also studied Russian music and literature.

This is the best biography in English to date on Prokofiev. draws upon previously untranslated Russian documents and letters to provide an unusually rich and detailed view of this enigmatic composer. -Library Journal show more. About Harlow Robinson.

ISBN 10: 1555535178 ISBN 13: 9781555535179. Publisher: Northeastern University Press, 2002. The prolific creator of such classic popular works as Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf, and Cinderella, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was one of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century.

Expertly translated and annotated by Harlow Robinson, the correspondence presented here covers Prokofiev's earliest years at St. Petersburg Conservatory, his extensive worldwide travels, and his return to Moscow. This engaging volume collects for the first time in English the most representative and enlightening of Prokofiev's letters, including some previously suppressed missives that have never before been published. Expertly translated and annotated by Harlow Robinson, the correspondence presented here covers Prokofiev's earliest years at St.

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Vasilisa the fair, based on The frog princess and other Russian folk tales by Sophia Prokofieva and Irina Tokmakova, music by Alla Lander, translated by Sabina Modzhalevskaya and Harlow Robinson, adapted by Adrian Mitchell (New York: Samuel French, 2003). Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2007).