Stravinsky in the Americas: transatlantic tours and domestic excursions from wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945)

"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 mus...

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Main Author: Slim, Harry Colin 1929-2019 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2019]
Series:California studies in 20th-century music
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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 which 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"...Provided by publisher
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XXVI, 451 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780520299924

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