When Yale’s undergraduate concert orchestra, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, performs Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire” on February 13, it will be the first full-production of this ...

The sloping, polished wooden interior of Walt Disney Concert Hall looked like the ridged belly of a musical beast Sunday, ...

In March of 1915, a crowd of fashionable patrons gathered for the New York premiere of Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus: The Poem of Fire. The Russian-born Scriabin had composed the piece by means of ...

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No one was expecting rings of perfumed smoke to billow through Davies Hall at the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of “Prometheus”. In tandem with perfumers Mathilde Laurent and pianist Jean Yves ...

Alexander Scriabin's symphonic poem Prometheus, The Poem of Fire celebrates synesthesia and cosmic unity. Devised by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Jean-Yves ...

Mathilde Laurent, Cartier’s perfumer, has created a scent poem that enhances the experience of Scriabin’s synesthetic score for “Prometheus.” By Joshua Barone Reporting from San Francisco and Paris It ...

The mercurial world of gods, demigods, and myth take center stage once again as Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony for Alexander Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, a ...

It was a cold and wet afternoon as I strolled down forlorn Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. A countercultural thoroughfare in the late 1960s, the street retained next to nothing of its once colorful ...

Saturday’s Yale Symphony Orchestra concert will have all the elements of a seance. A celebrated, long-dead Russian composer, Alexander Scriabin. His occult musical manuscript, stashed away in the ...