Stravinsky in context / edited by Graham Griffiths.
"Stravinsky in Context offers an alternative to chronological biography. Thirty-five short, specially commissioned essays explore the eventful lifetapestry from which Stravinsky's compositions emerged. The opening chapters draw on new research into the composer's upbringing in St Pete...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Composers in context.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Russia and identity. Memory and truth : Stravinsky's childhood (1882-1901) / Catriona Kelly ; Religion, life, and death in St. Petersburg / Natalia Braginskaya ; Leokadiya Kashperova and Stravinsky : the making of a concert pianist / Graham Griffiths ; Reminiscences of Rimsky-Korsakov, his family, and artistic circle / Lidia Ader ; Orthodoxies and unorthodoxies : Stravinsky's spiritual journey / Ivan Moody ; The Russian soul / Rowan Williams
- Part II. Stravinsky and Europe. Sergei Diaghilev and Stravinsky : from world of art to Ballets Russes / John E. Bowlt ; Paris and the belle époque / Davinia Caddy ; Paris, art deco, and the spirit of Apollo / Jonathan Cross ; Stravinsky's Spain : fan or mirror? / Graham Griffiths ; 'It is Venice that he loves' / Mauricio Dottori
- Part III. Partnerships and authorship. Stravinsky's sphere of influence : Paris and beyond / Inessa Bazayev ; Stravinsky and his literary collaborators / Maureen Carr ; Assuming co-authorship : Stravinsky and his 'ghostwriters' / Valérie Dufour ; Nadia Boulanger and Stravinsky : the transition to America / Kimberly Francis ; Conversations with Craft / Anna Schmidtmann
- Part IV. Performance and performers. Challenges to realism and tradition : Stravinsky's modernist theatre / Massimiliano Locanto ; Igor Stravinsky and ballet as modernism / Stephanie Jordan ; Stravinsky's ear for instruments / Chris Dromey ; Towards a conductor-proof ideal / Hannah Baxter ; The pianist in the recording studio : reimagining interpretation / Daniel Barolsky ; The legacy of Stravinsky as recorded history / Per Dahl
- Part V. Aesthetics and politics. Stravinsky versus literature / Emily Frey ; Stravinsky and Greek antiquity / Katerina Levidou ; Stravinsky's response to japonisme / Mai Ikehara ; Stravinsky, modernism, and mass culture / Ross Cole ; Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky : Adorno and others / Alan Street ; Stravinsky's 'problematical' political orientation during the 1920s and 1930s / Erik Levi
- Part VI. Reception and legacy. The Apollonian clockwork rewound / Elmer Schönberger ; Stravinsky reception in the USSR / Philip Ewell ; The Stravinsky/Craft conversations in Russian and their reception / Olga Manulkina ; Publishing Stravinsky / Nigel Simeone ; Copyright, the Stravinsky estate, and the Paul Sacher Foundation / Heidy Zimmermann ; Evoking the past, inspiring the future / Lynne Rogers ; 'Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all' / Daniel K. L. Chua.