Stravinsky and his world / edited by Tamara Levitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levitz, Tamara, author.

Contributor:

Levitz, Tamara.

Series:

Bard Music Festival series.

The Bard Music Festival

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composers--Biography.

Composers.

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.

Stravinsky, Igor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 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. The essays also explore Stravinsky's musical and religious differences with Arthur Lourié, delve into Stravinsky's collaboration with Pyotr Suvchinsky and Roland-Manuel in the genesis of his 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--including Spanish and Mexican interviews, Russian letters, articles by Arthur Lourié, and rarely seen French and Russian texts--supplement the volume, bringing to life Stravinsky's rich intellectual milieu and intense personal relationships. The contributors are Tatiana Baranova, Leon Botstein, Jonathan Cross, Valérie Dufour, Gretchen Horlacher, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, Leonora Saavedra, and Svetlana Savenko.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliteration and Titles of Works

Permissions and Credits

Stravinsky in Exile / Cross, Jonathan

Who Owns Mavra? A Transnational Dispute / Levitz, Tamara

Stravinsky's Russian Library / Baranova Monighetti, Tatiana

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

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

Arthur Lourié's Eurasianist and Neo-Thomist Responses to the Crisis of Art / Móricz, Klára

Igor the Angeleno: The Mexican Connection / Levitz, Tamara

Stravinsky Speaks to the Spanish-Speaking World / Saavedra, Leonora

The Poétique musicale: A Counterpoint in Three Voices / Dufour, Valérie

Stravinsky: The View from Russia / Savenko, Svetlana

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

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

Index

Notes on Contributors

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781785399879

178539987X

9780691159881

0691159882

9781400848546

1400848547

OCLC:

855503193