Mother and Child Reunion Mother and Child Reunion "Mother and Child Reunion" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the lead single from his second self-titled studio album (1972), released on Columbia Records. It was released as a single on February 5, 1972, reaching No. 1 in South Africa and No. 4 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. "Billboard" ranked it as the No. 57 song for 1972. It was at the time one of the few songs by a non-Jamaican musician to use prominent elements of reggae. Simon was a fan of reggae music, and he listened to
Sonata for Solo Cello (Prokofiev) of the Andante, yet the rest of the movement – and the rest of the sonata – was left unwritten. Years later, in 1972, the Russian musicologist and composer, Vladimir Blok, set about completing Prokofiev's "Sonata for Solo Cello" as a single, performable movement. Blok's reconstruction of the "Sonata for Solo Cello" was premiered by Natalia Gutman in Moscow in 1972, and was published the next year by Musikverlag Hans Sikorski. It was not until a decade later, in 1984, that the first recording of the work was made by the British cellist, Steven Isserlis. Rostropovich himself never recorded the