Memories and commentaries / Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft.
| Author/creator |
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 |
| Other author/creator | Craft, Robert. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, [1981], ©1960. |
| Description | 183 pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Autobiographical. A Russian education -- Diaghilev and his dancers -- Some Russian composers. Rimsky-Korsakov ; Cui ; Arensky ; Taneyev ; Liadov ; Scriabin ; Prokofiev -- Portraits memoires. Valery ; Rolland ; Falla ; Hahn ; Gorodetsky and Balmont ; Berners ; Royaute -- Some musical questions -- The operas. The Nightingale (letters from Alexander Benois) ; Persephone (letters from Andre Gide) ; The Rake's Progress (letters from W. H. Auden) -- Appendix: First scenario for The Rake's Progress. |
| Abstract | Here are the celebrated Stravinsky and Craft conversations for the first time in one volume. Conductor and writer Robert Craft was Stravinsky's closest colleague and friend, and for over twenty-one years he lived with the Stravinskys in their Hollywood home. In the early 1950s he accompanied the composer on his concert tours, and from the mid-1950s to Stravinsky's death in 1971 he co-conducted his concerts. Together Stravinsky and Craft published five acclaimed collections known as the Conversations series, which sprung from informal talks between the two men. In this newly edited and re-structured one-volume version, Craft brings Stravinsky's reflections on his childhood, his family life, professional associates, and personal relationships into sharper focus and places the major compositions in their cultural milieu. The Conversations books are the only published writing attributed to Stravinsky that are actually "by him" in terms of fidelity to his thoughts and opinions, making this volume required reading for all fans and students of Stravinsky's music. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 82119423 |
| ISBN | 0520044029 (pbk.) : |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.S932 A35 1981 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |