by Christopher Fulkerson
Prokofiev at his piano, Nikopol, ca. 1917
This page is here to provide a separate link for the article originally entitled "This is Alexander Sergeievitch Speaking," commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony for the San Francisco Magazine in January 1984.
Another article on a Russian subject, this time in the field of literature, was originally entitled "The Mozart of Poetry," commissioned by the San Francisco Opera for the Fall 1986 San Francisco Opera Performing Arts Network Publication and there entitled "A Pushkin Collage."
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I have also written a short, accessible piece for the Russian Orthodox service, a standard choral prayer called the CHERUVIMSKAYA, often translated as the "Song of the Cherubim."