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Stravinsky in the Americas
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.
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Stravinsky, God, and Time
This ground-breaking study of Stravinsky's spirituality presents a new view of his music as unified, challenging the current view which describes it as often discontinuous and static. Stravinsky's spirituality is the origin of his radical restoration of time in music.
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The Propaganda of Freedom
The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic
vitality
Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that
only artists in free societies can produce great art became a
bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied
centuries of historical evidence--to say nothing of achievements
within the Soviet Union--failed to impact impregnable cultural Cold
War doctrine.
Joseph Horowitz writes: \"That so many fine minds could have
cheapened freedom by over-praising it, turning it into a
reductionist propaganda mantra, is one measure of the intellectual
cost of the Cold War.\" He shows how the efforts of the CIA-funded
Congress for Cultural Freedom were distorted by an
anti-totalitarian \"psychology of exile\" traceable to its secretary
general, the displaced Russian aristocrat/composer Nicolas Nabokov,
and to Nabokov's hero Igor Stravinsky.
In counterpoint, Horowitz investigates personal, social, and
political factors that actually shape the creative act. He here
focuses on Stravinsky, who in Los Angeles experienced a \"freedom
not to matter,\" and Dmitri Shostakovich, who was both victim and
beneficiary of Soviet cultural policies. He also takes a fresh look
at cultural exchange and explores paradoxical similarities and
differences framing the popularization of classical music in the
Soviet Union and the United States. In closing, he assesses the
Kennedy administration's arts advocacy initiatives and their
pertinence to today's fraught American national identity.
Challenging long-entrenched myths, The Propaganda of
Freedom newly explores the tangled relationship between the
ideology of freedom and ideals of cultural achievement.
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Stravinsky and the Russian Period
Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard. Characteristic features of style, melody and harmony are traced to rhythmic forces, including those of metrical displacement. Along with Stravinsky's formalist aesthetics, the strict performing style he favoured is also traced to rhythmic factors, thus reversing the direction of the traditional causal relationship. Here, aesthetic belief and performance practice are seen as flowing directly from the musical invention. The book provides a counter-argument to the criticism and aesthetics of T. W. Adorno and Richard Taruskin, and will appeal to composers, critics and performers as well as scholars of Stravinsky's music.
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Stravinsky and His World
Stravinsky and His Worldbrings 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 buffaMavra, 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 groundbreakingPoetics of Music, and look at how the movement within stasis evident in the scores of Stravinsky'sOrpheusandOedipus Rexreflected 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.
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