Stravinsky in the Americas : Transatlantic Tours and Domestic Excursions from Wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945) / H. Colin Slim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slim, H. Colin, Author.

Contributor:

Taruskin, Richard, Contributor.

Series:

California Studies in 20th-Century Music ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Travel--United States.

Stravinsky, Igor.

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Criticism and interpretation.

Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (623 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Stravinsky in the Americas explores the "pre-Craft" period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945. Through a rich archival trove of ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and other documents, eminent musicologist H. Colin Slim examines the twenty-year period that began with Stravinsky as a radical European art-music composer and ended with him as a popular figure in American culture. This collection traces Stravinsky's rise to fame-catapulted in large part by his collaborations with Hollywood and Disney and marked by his extra-marital affairs, his grappling with feelings of anti-Semitism, and his encounters with contemporary musicians as the music industry was emerging and taking shape in midcentury America. Slim's lively narrative records the composer's larger-than-life persona through a close look at his transatlantic tours and domestic excursions, where Stravinsky's personal and professional life collided in often-dramatic ways.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Abbreviated Contents

Contents

List Of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Tour I (1925)

2. Tour II (1935)

3. Tour III (1936)

4. Tour IV (1937)

5. Tour V (october 1939-late May 1940)

6. Excursions (1940-1941)

7. Excursions (1942)

8. Excursions (1943)

9. Excursions (1944)

10. Excursions (1945-Early 1946)

Appendix: Stravinsky And "Neoclassicism"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520971530

0520971531

OCLC:

1048659607