Retrospectives and conclusions / Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft.
| Author/creator |
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 |
| Other author/creator | Craft, Robert, author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. |
| Description | ix, 350, xi pages ; 22 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction: a master at work -- Part I. Miscellana. Interviews. Stravinsky on the the musical scene and other matters ; Music and the statistical age ; Stravinsky at eighty-five ; Side effects I ; Side effects II ; Where is thy sting? -- Prefaces. Some perspectives on a contemporary ; Gesualdo di Venosa: new perspectives ; Die Meistersinger ; Svadebka (Les Noces): an instrumentation -- Reviews. Three types of spring fever (Stravinsky reviews The Rite) ; A realm of truth -- Part II. From the diaries of Robert Craft, 1948-1968. 1948 -- 1949 -- 1951 -- 1952 -- 1953 -- 1956 -- 1958 -- 1959 -- 1960 -- 1961 -- 1965 -- 1966 -- 1967 -- 1968 -- Appendixes. A. Diary Addenda (1968) ; B. Virgil Thomson / by Virgil Thomson ; C. Lulu: Notes on the drama -- Indexes. |
| Abstract | In this, the sixth of the now-famous collaborations by Stravinsky and Robert Craft, the great composer's verbal brilliance is presented in Craft's artful juxtaposition of Stravinsky's table talk and writings: essays, reviews, polemics. Here we watch the pyrotechnics of a mind in which music is linked to the intellectual and social currents of our time by a vast--and vastly entertaining--connective tissue. The moral implications of Beethoven's greatest quartets; the non-novelty of Karlheinz Stockhausen's seventy-minute chord; a confrontation of Monostatos with Eldridge Cleaver; the relative merits and flaws of three recordings of Le Sacre du printemps; today's young composer settling down to commune with his Moog--all are fuel for Stravinsky's light-shedding intellectual flights. Excerpts from Craft's diaries of his long association with Stravinsky and the Stravinsky circle, as well as his hitherto unpublished notes on Berg's Lulu, are included. This book, like its five predecessors, is at once superb reading and a fascinating and important contribution to modern musical history. |
| General note | Includes indexes. |
| LCCN | 71088752 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.S932 A37 1969 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |