What does my name mean to you?

Sergei Prokofiev was in New York when the Zimro Ensemble, a sextet of his former classmates from St. Petersburg, performed there. The group specialized in Jewish music and performed their program several times at Carnegie Hall. Asked to write an overture for the sextet, Prokofiev wrote a roughly ten-minute piece with the character of klezmer music—with a lively theme for the clarinet and a more contemplative theme for the cello. In 1934, Prokofie...