Stravinsky and his world.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levitz, Tamara, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.

Stravinsky, Igor.

Composers--Biography.

Composers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 367 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Princeton University Pres, 2013.

Summary:

Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. Contributors examine Stravinsky's interaction with Spanish and Latin American modernism, rethink the stylistic label "neoclassicism" with a section on the ideological conflict over his lesser-known opera buffa Mavra, and reassess his connections to his homeland, paying special attention to Stravinsky's visit to the Soviet Union in 1962. They also explore Stravinsky's musical and religious differences with Arthur Lourié, delve into his collaboration with Pyotr Suvchinsky and Roland-Manuel in the genesis of Stravinsky's groundbreaking Poetics of Music, and look at how the movement within stasis evident in the scores of Stravinsky's Orpheus and Oedipus Rex reflected the composer's fierce belief in fate. Rare documents supplement Stravinsky and His World-Spanish and Mexican interviews, Russian letters, articles by Arthur Lourié, and rarely seen French and Russian articles-bringing to life Stravinsky's rich intellectual milieu and intense personal relationships. The contributors are Tatiana Baranova Monighetti, Leon, Botstein, Jonathan Cross, Valérie Dufour, Gretchen Horlacher, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, Leonora Saavedra, and Svetlana Savenko. Book jacket.

Contents:

Stravinsky in Exile / Jonathan Cross Cross, Jonathan 3

Who Owns Mavra? A Transnational Dispute 21

Introduction and Notes by Tamara Levitz / Bridget Behrmann Behrmann, Bridget, Katya Ermolaev Ermolaev, Katya, Laurel E. Fay Fay, Laurel E., Alexandra Grabarchuk Grabarchuk, Alexandra, Tamara Levitz Levitz, Tamara

Stravinsky's Russian library / Tatiana Baranova Monighetti Monighetti, Tatiana Baranova 61

The Futility of Exhortation: Pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus / Gretchen Horlacher Horlacher, Gretchen

Symphonies and Funeral Games: Lourié's Critique of Stravinsky's Neoclassicism / Klára Móricz Móricz, Klára 105

Arthur Lourié's Eurasianist and Neo-Thomist Responses to the Crisis of Art 127

Introduction and Notes By Klára Móricz / Bridget Behrmann Behrmann, Bridget, Katya Ermolaev Ermolaev, Katya, Yasha Klots Klots, Yasha, Tamara Levitz Levitz, Tamara, Klára Móricz Móricz, Klára, Boris Wolfson Wolfson, Boris

Igor the Angeleno: The Mexican Connection / Tamara Levitz Levitz, Tamara 141

Stravinsky Speaks to the Spanish-Speaking World 177

Introduction / Leonora Saavedra Saavedra, Leonora, Mariel Fiori Fiori, Mariel, Tamara Levitz Levitz, Tamara Levitz, Tamara, Tamara Levitz

The Poétique musicale: A Counterpoint in Three Voices / Valérie Dufour Dufour, Valérie, Bridget Behrmann Behrmann, Bridget, Tamara Levitz Levitz, Tamara 225

Stravinsky: The View from Russia / Svetlana Savenko Savenko, Svetlana, Philipp Penka Penka, Philipp 255

Stravinsky's Cold War: Letters About the Composer's Return to Russia, 1960-1963 / Philipp Penka Penka, Philipp, Alexandra Grabarchuk Grabarchuk, Alexandra, Tamara Levitz Levitz, Tamara 273

"The Precision of Poetry and the Exactness of Pure Science": Nabokov, Stravinsky, and the Reader as Listener / Leon Botstein Botstein, Leon 319.

ISBN:

0691159874

9780691159874

0691159882

9780691159881

OCLC:

841391656