Boris Berman, pianist, on Prokofiev
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Boris Berman, Professor of Piano, Chair of the Piano department at the Yale School of Music, and one of the world’s leading authorities on the life and music of Sergei Prokofiev talks with Yale piano student David Kaplan about Prokofiev and upcoming performances at Yale and New York of his music.
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