Ron Chaplin wrote:

>Right after I sent my last post, I did a search on Prokofiev on the web and
>answered my own question.  Boy, was I wrong.  Sorry to bother you folks.

Better that wisdom come late!!  I remembered that in 1948, shortly after
I became acquainted w/ some of his works, and those of Shostakovich and
Khatchaturian, all three, among others, became victims of a decree from the
party central committee declaring Prokofiev's works "marked with formalist
perversions...alien to the Soviet people".  The quote I got from the New
Grove to which I turned to refresh my recollection.  It continues, that
"*War and Peace* came under special fire, and many of Prokofiev's earlier
works were banned from performance."

Walter Meyer