{"id":4940,"date":"2016-05-17T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T08:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2016-05-17T18:51:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T08:51:05","slug":"its-my-apartment-and-ill-play-if-i-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4940","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s my apartment and I&#8217;ll play if I want to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prokofiev and his family moved into a small top floor-apartments in Paris.\u00a0 Prokofiev spent much time practicing a revised version of his second piano concerto (which was to be premiered 8 May 1924).\u00a0 The apartment manager demanded that Prokofiev cease playing.\u00a0 His wife Lina recalled Prokofiev&#8217;s response:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All right then, you don&#8217;t want to hear my music, but I have the right to do whatever I like in my own apartment.\u00a0 Instead of playing music I&#8217;ll start hammering boxes together.&#8221;\u00a0 Placing a box on the floor, he started banging on it with a hammer.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how it ended &#8211; apparently the neighbours threw up their hands and gave in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cited in: Jaff\u00e9, Daniel (1998) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sergey Prokofiev<\/span>.\u00a0 London: Phaidon Press Limited, p.93.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prokofiev and his family moved into a small top floor-apartments in Paris.\u00a0 Prokofiev spent much time practicing a revised version of his second piano concerto (which was to be premiered 8 May 1924).\u00a0 The apartment manager demanded that Prokofiev cease playing.\u00a0 His wife Lina recalled Prokofiev&#8217;s response: All right then, you don&#8217;t want to hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[1059],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalities-of-the-musicians","tag-prokofiev"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4941,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions\/4941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}