Harlow Robinson

Harlow Robinson has written on music and the performing arts for The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Musical America, Opera News, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Classical Voice, Cineaste, Stagebill, and other publications for more than 50 years. His five books include Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography (now in six editions); The Last Impresario: The Life, Times and Legacy of Sol Hurok; and Russians in Hollywood: Hollywood’s Russians. A frequent traveler to the former USSR and Russia, he received his B.A. in Russian from Yale, where he sang with and managed the Yale Russian Chorus. He recently annotated the Boston Symphony’s cycle of symphonies and other works of Dmitri Shostakovich released by Deutsche Grammophon.