In Chicago's Orchestra Hall one night last week, while chunky Conductor Hans Lange stood on the podium and the Chicago Symphony sat ready, a tall, blond man lumbered in.
looking ''engagingly like Henry of the cartoons" to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the Journal of Commerce. Sergei Prckofieff seated himself at a piano, neatly and precisely played with the orchestra his own Concerto No. 1. No stranger to Chicago was this 45-year-old Russian. There in 1921 both the caustic Concerto and Prokofieff's opera The Love for Three Oranges received the:r first performances. In...
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