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Concert Band - Grade 5 SKU: BT.DHP-0960683-040 Composed by Sergei Prokofiev. The Great Classics. Concert Piece. Set (Score & Parts). Composed 1996. De Haske Publications #DHP 0960683-040. Published by De Haske Publications (BT.DHP-0960683-040). The Russian ballet director Sergei Diaghilev commissioned many composers to write music for the theatre. This was what caused Serge Prokofiev to compose the four part Scytische Suite (also known as Ala and Lolli) in 1916, from which The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits can be heard on this CD. This suite is one of Prokofiev's first works, and received negative criticism following its first performance on account of its being "uncivilised". Prokofiev himself wrote after this first performance ". . . The timpani player beat the skin of the timpani to tatters, and the whole orchestra voiced a protest. A cellist complained that he only put up with the violence, createdby the blaring brass, on account of his sick wife and three children . . .".