Download or read book Igor Stravinsky Correspondence on The Rake s Progress written by Igor Stravinsky and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Igor Stravinsky correspondence on The Rake's Progress consists of correspondence, dated May 1950 to May 1951, between Stravinsky and his lawyer in New York, L. Arnold Weissberger, concerning the mounting of his opera, The Rake's Progress. Also included are copies of letters to F. H. Ricketson of the Central Civic Opera House Association, Denver, Colorado; Lincoln Kirstein; Howard Taubmann of the New York Times; and Betty Bean and Dr. E. Roth of Stravinsky's publishers, Boosey & Hawkes, London. The letters discuss business matters pertaining to the production of the opera, financial support for the work, where to stage the premier (including discussions about a possible staging at USC), locations for the opera's American debut, problems associated with Italian singers performing in English, and various other financial and administrative matters pertaining to the completion and production of the work. Stravinsky's letters to Weissberger are on his personal letterhead with his Los Angeles address, "1260 N. Wetherly Drive, Hollywood 46, California."
Download or read book Stravinsky Selected Correspondence written by Igor Stravinsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stravinsky Selected Correspondence Igor Catherine and God written by Igor Stravinsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This initial selection from the extraordinary lifetime of letters to and from Igor Stravinsky, annotated by his friend and associate Robert Craft, includes correspondence with W. H. Auden, Jean Cocteau, Lincoln Kirstein and other friends, as well as Stravinsky's letters to Nadia Boulanger, Ernest Ansermet, and Craft himself. The book presents a wealth of previously unpublished information about Stravinsky's relationships with other musicians, and about his methods of composition. The opening section, based on letters to Stravinsky from his first wife Catherine, is among the most important material yet made available for an understanding of the composer's personal and family life. If the exchanges with Auden (The Rake's Progress) and Cocteau (Oedipus Rex) take first place for general interest, the letters to Ansermet - who conducted more performances of Stravinsky's music than anyone but the composer himself - give a remarkable view of the musical and ballet worlds, especially of the Diaghilev period, and of the great impresario himself. This book, accompanied by two further volumes, is a major contribution to the Stravinsky canon and to the cultural history of the twentieth century."--whsmith.co.uk.
Download or read book The Last Opera written by Chandler Carter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake's Progress. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work seemed to appeal only to conservative audiences. Few perceived that Stravinsky and Auden were confronting the central crisis of the Modern age, for their story of a hapless eighteenth-century Everyman dramatizes the very limits of human will, a theme Auden insists underlies all opera. In The Last Opera, Chandler Carter weaves together three interlocking stories. The central and most detailed story explores the libretto and music of The Rake's Progress. The second positions the opera as a focal point in Stravinsky's artistic journey and those who helped him realize it—his librettists, Auden and Chester Kallman; his protégé Robert Craft; and his compatriot, fellow composer, and close friend Nicolas Nabokov. By exploring the ominous cultural landscape in which these fascinating individuals lived and worked, the book captures a pivotal twenty-five-year span (from approximately 1945 to 1970) during which modernists like Stravinsky and Auden confronted a tectonic disruption to their artistic worldview. Ultimately, Carter reveals how these stories fit into a larger third narrative, the 400-year history of opera. This richly and lovingly contextualized study of The Rake's Progress sheds new light on why, despite the hundreds of musical dramas and theater pieces that have been written since its premier in 1951, this work is still considered the "the last opera."
Download or read book Igor Stravinsky The Rake s Progress written by Paul Griffiths and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-09-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.
Download or read book Stravinsky Selected Correspondence Correspondence with Serge de Diaghilev 1911 1928 written by Igor Stravinsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stravinsky Selected Correspondence Correspondence with Claude and Emma Debussy 1912 1918 written by Igor Stravinsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rake s Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Igor Stravinsky the Rake s Progress written by Paul Griffiths and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.
Download or read book Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys written by Nadia Boulanger and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the first time: a rich epistolary dialogue revealing one master teacher's power to shape the cultural canon and one great composer's desire to embed himself within historical narratives.
Download or read book Memories and Commentaries written by Igor Stravinsky and published by London, Faber. This book was released on 1960 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contents of the celebrated series of Conversations, dating from the last fifteen years of Stravinsky's life, were taken down by Robert Craft in informal talks with the composer. Craft lived for twenty-one years with the Stravinskys in their Hollywood home, or nearby, and for two more years in a next-door hotel room in New York. In the early 1950s he accompanied the composer on his concert tours, and from the mid-1950s to the end of Stravinsky's life co-conducted his concerts. Memories and Commentaries, the second of the series, is a brilliant portrait gallery in which Stravinsky, prompted by Craft, sets down with characteristic wit and insight his memories of such famous writers and musicians as Romain Rolland, Reynaldo Hahn, Lord Berners and Manuel de Falla. There are long sections devoted to Diaghilev, to Russian composers, to Stravinsky's childhood and youth in Russia, and detailed accounts of his collaboration with Benois (The Nightingale), Gide (Persephone) and Auden (The Rake's Progress). The Conversations books are the only published writings attributed to Stravinsky that are actually by him, in the sense of fidelity to the substance of his thoughts, making them required reading for all students and lovers of Stravinsky.
Download or read book The Rake s Progress by Igor Stravinsky written by Wendy Louise Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Themes and Conclusions written by Igor Stravinsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the final volume in the legendary series of Stravinsky's conversations with Robert Craft. In his foreword, dated March 1971 shortly before his death, Stravinsky wrote of his 'final work of words': 'They are hardly the last words about myself or my music that I would like to have written, and in fact they say almost nothing about the latter, except tangentially, in comments on Beethoven. It is almost five years now since I have completed an original composition, a time during which I have had to transform myself from a composer to a listener. The vacuum which this left has not been filled, but I have been able to live with it thanks, in the largest measure, to the music of Beethoven. It is certain, now that I will not be granted powers such as have recently enable Casals to publish a book at an age six years greater than mine. But I am thankful that I can listen to and love the music of other men in a way I could not do when I was composing my own.' Although Stravinsky may have written nothing new about his music in his last years, this book collects together a number of his programme notes about his own works, among them the "Symphonies of Wind Instruments "and" Jeu de Carte," and there are waspish letters to the press, wide-ranging interviews, prefaces and reviews, and a whole section entitled 'Squibs'. Readers who enjoyed the earlier volumes of recollections will find this final volume equally enlightening, diverting and enriching. This unique series of memories is essential reading for all students and lovers of Stravinsky.
Download or read book Dearest Bubushkin written by Vera Stravinsky and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gebundelde brieven van Russische componist (1882-1971) en zijn echtgenote, begeleid door foto's en aangevuld met dagboekfragmenten.
Download or read book The Rake s Progress by Igor Stravinsky written by Sharon Acton and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stravinsky Selected Correspondence Correspondence with Claude and Emma Debussy 1912 1918 Correspondence with Erik Satie 1912 1923 Correspondence with Maurice Ravel 1913 1923 Correspondence with C F Ramuz 1915 1937 Correspondence with C A Cingria 1917 1952 Letters from Jacques Handschin 1931 1933 Correspondence with Werner Reinhart 1918 1938 Correspondence with Andr Gide 1917 1938 Correspondence with Paul Claudel 1938 A letter from Albert Camus 1952 Correspondence with Francis Poulenc 1917 1962 Excerpts from Stravinsky s letters to B Schott s S hne 1928 1939 Excerpts from Stravinsky s letters to Associated Music Publishers 1940 1947 Excerpts from Stravinsky s letters to Boosey Hawkes 1946 1968 Appendixes A Histoire du soldat the musical revisions the sketches and the evolution of the libretto B Pers phone the evolution of the libretto C The rake s progress the evolution of the libretto and the sketches D The Stravinsky Nachlass in New York and Basel written by Igor Stravinsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
