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February 9th, 2010

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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 10:25 am
Prokofiev wrote a musical about the romantic entanglements of marine biologists.

As usual, they have to say, in knee-jerk fashion, that he was forced to pick the subject because of pressure from the Soviet hierarchy to produce something appealing to the masses.

He couldn't have picked it because it amused him, could he?