Themes and conclusions / Igor Stravinsky.
| Author/creator | Stravinsky, Igor |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Faber and Faber, 1972. |
| Description | 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part one. Squibs. Words ; New enemies of art ; Art and money ; The rising cost of art ; An imperfect science ; Education by automation ; Talent and the population explosion ; Provincialism ; Form and function ; Five examples ; Conspiracy of silence ; Longevity ; The terminological crisis ; By any other name? ; Individuality ; Change of life ; Eye music ; Envoi -- Programme notes. Pribaoutki ; Le Chant du Rossignol ; Symphonies of Wind Instruments ; Eight Instrumental Miniatures ; Three Sacred Choruses ; Four Etudes for Orchestra ; Jeu de Cartes ; Dumbarton Oaks Concerto ; Symphony in C ; Danses Concertantes ; Orpheus ; The Rake's Progress. 'La Prima Assoluta' / Vera Stravinsky -- Greeting Prelude ; Abraham and Isaac ; Elegy for J.F.K. ; Variations ; Introitus: T.S. Eliot in Memoriam -- Memoir. A memoir -- Part two. Interviews. Transcript of BBC television interview ; In the name of Jean-Jacques! ; A talk with Stravinsky ; A perfect total ; A decade later ; Interview ; Stravinsky at eighty-five ; Side effects I ; Side effects II ; Where is thy sting? ; Progress report ; Portrait of the artist as an old man (cont'd) ; Rap session ; Borborygms -- Part three. Prefaces. Some perspectives of a contemporary ; Gesualdo di Venosa: new perspectives ; Svadebka (Les Noces): an instrumentation -- Letters. To the Los Angeles Times ; To the Los Angeles Times ; To Wolfgang Wagner ; To the Composer ; To the New York Times ; To the New York Times ; To the New York Times ; To the Los Angeles Times ; To The Nation ; To The New York Times -- Part four. On conductors and conducting -- Part five. Reviews. Spring fevers ; Wagner's prose ; Schoenberg's letters ; A realm of truth -- Part six. Columns. On Beethoven's piano sonatas ; Nowhere to go ; The maker of libretti ; The filter and the Flood -- Appendix. Vera Stravinsky to a cousin in Moscow. |
| Abstract | This is the final volume in the legendary series of Stravinsky's conversations with Robert Craft. In his foreword, dated March 1971 shortly before his death, Stravinsky wrote of his 'final work of words': 'They are hardly the last words about myself or my music that I would like to have written, and in fact they say almost nothing about the latter, except tangentially, in comments on Beethoven. It is almost five years now since I have completed an original composition, a time during which I have had to transform myself from a composer to a listener. The vacuum which this left has not been filled, but I have been able to live with it thanks, in the largest measure, to the music of Beethoven. It is certain, now that I will not be granted powers such as have recently enable Casals to publish a book at an age six years greater than mine. But I am thankful that I can listen to and love the music of other men in a way I could not do when I was composing my own.' Although Stravinsky may have written nothing new about his music in his last years, this book collects together a number of his programme notes about his own works, among them the "Symphonies of Wind Instruments "and" Jeu de Carte," and there are waspish letters to the press, wide-ranging interviews, prefaces and reviews, and a whole section entitled 'Squibs'. Readers who enjoyed the earlier volumes of recollections will find this final volume equally enlightening, diverting and enriching. This unique series of memories is essential reading for all students and lovers of Stravinsky. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 72172583 |
| ISBN | 0571083080 |
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