Harlow Robinson

Books

• Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography 573 pp. Viking Press, 1987; published in UK by Robert Hale (1987); in paper by Paragon House (1988); Spanish-language edition by Javier Vergara Editor (1988) Reissued by Northeastern University Press with a new foreword and afterword, in paperback, 2002, 584 pp.
• The Last Impresario: The Life, Times and Legacy of Sol Hurok 521 pp. Viking Press, 1994; Penguin paperback, 1995.
• Selected Letters of Sergei Prokofiev Translated, edited and with an introduction by Harlow Robinson 348 pp. Northeastern University Press; 1998

Chapters in Collections

• Articles on Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Borodin, Betrothal in a Monastery, Prince Igor and Kat’a Kabanova for International Dictionary of Opera (St.James Press, 1993)
• “‘Molchanie–eto smert’ or ‘Keeping Russia Clean’: Recent Developments in the Gay and Lesbian Movement in Russia, For SK: In Celebration of the Life and Career of Simon Karlinsky, Modern Russian Literature and Culture, Studies and Texts Vol.33, Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1994, 255-262.
• “Composing for Victory: Classical Music in the USSR During World War II,” Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia, edited by Richard Stites. Indiana University Press, 1995; 62-76.
• “Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and the Russian Ballet Tradition,” Crossed Stars: Artistic Sources and Social Conflict in the Ballet “Romeo and Juliet”, Revised and edited proceedings from a Conference sponsored by the Dance Critics Association, San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, 1994, 34-38.
• “Soviet Culture Under Gorbachev: Another ‘Thaw’?,” in The Gorbachev Generation: Issues in Soviet Domestic Policy edited by Jane Shapiro Zacek. Paragon House, 1989. 139-55.
• “Music,” in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture, ed.Nicholas Rzhevsky, Cambridge U.Press , 1998, 236-63.
• “Shostakovich Symposium: Maksim Shostakovich, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Solomon Volkov, Kenneth Kiesler,” moderated, translated and edited by Harlow Robinson in Shostakovich Reconsidered , Allan B.Ho and Dmitry Feofanov, eds. Toccata Press, 1998, 373-399
• 41 reviews of operas on video for Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video, Paul Gruber, ed., Norton, 1997.
• ­Mussorgsky: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano, G.Schirmer, Inc., 1995 Paraphrase translations, 371-389
• Tchaikovsky: Complete Songs for the Voice and Piano, paraphrase translations (unpublished) “Vasilisa the Fair,” a play in two acts and eight scenes after Russian folk tales, by Sofia Prokofieva and Irina Tokmakova. Translated by Sabina Modzhalevskaya and Harlow Robinson; edited by Harlow Robinson. For New York State Theatre Institute, Albany; produced May 1991; published in paperback by Samuel French, 2003 (52 pp.)
• Mozart and Salieri by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Introduction on the opera; English translation of the opera (singing version) with Thaddeus Motyka; translation of the introduction and notes to the Soviet edition. Belwin-Mills, Inc., 1984. (produced in New York by Chamber Opera Theatre of New York, 1981)
• The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. English translation of the opera (singing version) and translation of the introduction and notes to Soviet edition. Belwin-Mills, Inc., 1984. Reprinted by Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1994.