VADIM PROKHOROV
Vadim Prokhorov is an artist, writer, and composer. As an artist, he has shown his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York City and Connecticut. He is the author and illustrator of the book Little Red Riding Hood, which was e-published on Kindle and other readers in 2012. He was a featured artist in the spring 2008 issue of the Journal of Esoteric Psychology. His paintings and prints have sold to private collectors in New York, Washington DC, and Connecticut.
Vadim Prokhorov is the author of Russian Folk Songs: Musical Genres and History (published in 2001 by Scarecrow Press). He has contributed cover and feature articles to The Guardian (London), Parade Magazine, Air&Space/Smithsonian, Playbill, The Moscow Times, and Gramophone Online Magazine, among others.
His choral compositions and arrangements of Russian vocal compositions and folk songs have been published by Hal Leonard, EC Schirmer, Oxford University Press, and Musica Russica. Vadim Prokhorov has given lectures on Russian music at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Wesleyan and Boston Universities, among others.
Vadim Prokhorov is the author of Russian Folk Songs: Musical Genres and History (published in 2001 by Scarecrow Press). He has contributed cover and feature articles to The Guardian (London), Parade Magazine, Air&Space/Smithsonian, Playbill, The Moscow Times, and Gramophone Online Magazine, among others.
His choral compositions and arrangements of Russian vocal compositions and folk songs have been published by Hal Leonard, EC Schirmer, Oxford University Press, and Musica Russica. Vadim Prokhorov has given lectures on Russian music at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Wesleyan and Boston Universities, among others.
Symphony in 4 Movements
Symphony in 4 Movements is my latest work of my long-term project "Visual Music." The series consists of 32 digitally generated prints. The sequence follows the musical ideas and structures of the symphonic cycle. In this art score, I employ thematic development, thematic transformation and other methods common to classical music. I also employ the principles of musical form to structure the movements of the series. The movements contrast one another, with each movement having a different character.
The first movement, Enigmatico, is intricate, pensive and somewhat polyphonic. It is composed in ternary form (the three-part form) The second movement, Pastorale, explores the world of nature and its colors and is structured in the theme and variations form. The third movement, Scherzo, is monochromatic and of a playful and sparkling character. I subtitle it "The Radiance of the Night." It is composed in ternary form. The fourth movement, Finale, is joyful, optimistic, spirited and energetic, with the motion of color as the driving force of onward movement. It is composed in sonata form, in which the secondary theme projects lyrical tranquility and the closing theme radiates the luminous glow of light. The recapitulation is inverted.
As a progression of events, this symphonic cycle introduces the element of time into the art's two-dimensional space. At the same time, the audience can see the temporal process as one object in space. They can see each movement and the entire symphony as the whole, if they step back and observe it as one. Thus, the sequence creates the spacial-temporal structure, the space-time continuum, synergizing the space and time into the unified entity.