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The KPAC Blog features classical music news, reviews, and analysis from South Texas and around the world.

Why November Is A Good Month To Celebrate Composer Sergei Prokofiev

Composer Sergei Prokofiev. (AFP/Getty Images)
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.”

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