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Sergei Prokofiev: “The Philosophers” | St. Petersburg Philharmonic Choir

Dominique Montoya-Johnson

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”

KARL MARX
CANTATA ON THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION, OP. 74: II. PHILOSOPHERS BY ST. PETERSBURG NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA AND ALEXANDER TITOV

“The Philosophers” is the second movement of Op. 74 of the Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution. The canata follows the story of the Bolshevik Revolution and the birth of the Soviet Union, from the battle for the Winter Palace in 1917 all the way to the consolidation of Stalin’s control in 1936 with the new constitution.

DOMINIQUE MONTOYA-JOHNSON is a DePaul University returned student, and Religious Studies major with Graduate school plans, and has studied classic folklore and mythology (Greek, Roman, Scandinavian, Celtic and African) since a youth. As a Religious Studies scholar, philosopher and historian, engaged in Esoteric Studies, Theosophy, American History and the History of Religion in the U.S. with supplemental regional focus on Europe, Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia and Russia.

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