Music director Iván Fischer leading an Budapest Festival Orchestra concert at Carnegie Hall in New York Thursday. A.J. Wilhelm for NPR hide caption
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Conductor Andris Nelsons led the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus Thursday in Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky at Carnegie Hall in New York. AJ Wilhelm for NPR hide caption
A Tale Of Two Sergeys: Boston Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (left), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (center), and Speaker of the House John Boehner are three key lawmakers in the government shut down and debt ceiling crisis. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
For his zany opera The Love for Three Oranges, Prokofiev wrote a little march that made it big. Alexey Stiop/iStockphoto.com hide caption
Sergei Prokofiev (pictured) wrote a Fifth Symphony that has special resonance in Sao Paulo for conductor Marin Alsop. Library of Congress hide caption
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The animated short 'Fourth Orange' by director Julia Titova. YouTube hide caption
The Orchestra of St. Luke's opens The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan. Eric Weiss/Courtesy of the OSL hide caption
The Orchestra Of St. Luke's: Home At Last
Cover art for the American release of Peter And The Wolf on RCA Victor. Courtesy RCA Victor hide caption
'Peter And The Wolf' Turns 75
NPR's Scott Simon takes on Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, with the Baltimore Symphony. hide caption
Boris Berman, a Yale School of Music professor, pianist and Prokofiev specialist, presents a concert of rarities by the Soviet composer. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
1879 poster for Romeo and Juliet. Library of Congress hide caption