A voyage around my father May 5, 2008
Earlier that year, 1953, Thomas had finished his great play Under Milk Wood, which imagined a night and day in the life of a small Welsh fishing village; he was also about to start work on an opera with Igor Stravinsky. In one of the last letters he wrote, to Stravinsky in Hollywood, Thomas looked forward to making the trip to California: "I needn't tell you how excited I am.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Quartet shares a final teaching moment Apr 21, 2008
But they returned in exquisite form for the complete string quartets of Igor Stravinsky (that composer having only contributed some 20 labile minutes of music to the genre). The group's detailed, close-knit phrasing ideally parsed the condensed, experimental discontinuities of the "Three Pieces" Stravinsky in 1914, venturing out in new, post-"Rite of Spring" directions - while their calibrated sound, rich cello and viola anchoring lean violins, lent depth to the more expansively asymmetrical... (Boston Globe)
More of this story Apr 12, 2008
The series started as Evenings on the Roof in 1939 (at the Rudolf Schindler-designed home of founder Peter Yates in Silver Lake) and presented the American debut of Pierre Boulez, world premieres by Igor Stravinsky and music by Arnold Schoenberg and other composers who fled Europe during World War II. Between 1965 and 2006, the series was held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. When LACMA dropped its support, Monday Evening Concerts moved to Downtown Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Carter centennial, Mendelssohn, Glass on S.F. Performances slate Apr 9, 2008
Composer-pianist Thomas Ads will join violinist Anthony Marwood for a program focusing on the duo of Igor Stravinsky and violinist Samuel Dushkin, and bassist-composer Edgar Meyer will give a joint recital with mandolin phenom Chris Thile. The Carter tribute will include a weekend of chamber and piano music performed by pianist Ursula Oppens and the Pacifica Quartet, and lecturer Robert Greenberg will join the Alexander String Quartet for a five-part series on Mendelssohn. (San Francisco Chronicle)
North Iowa Symphony Orchestra to perform Monday Apr 3, 2008
Berceuse & Finale, Igor Stravinsky. User Comments - No comments posted. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Innovation and improvisation marked bassist Cachao's work Mar 25, 2008
" A child prodigy who began playing bass at age 9, in a family that boasts 36 double bassists, Cachao was classically trained and became a member of the Havana Symphony at age 13, a post he held for 31 years. He performed with such composer/conductors as Igor Stravinsky, Mantovani and fellow Cuban Ernesto Lecuona. With his older brother Orestes, a bassist, cellist and pianist, he was also part of the string-and-flute charanga orchestra Arcao y sus Maravillas. The brothers composed more than... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Israel 'Cachao' Lpez Mar 24, 2008
During his tenure with the Filarm;nica, he was to play under such guest conductors as Herbert von Karajan and Igor Stravinsky. While the Filarm;nica paid his wages Cachao kept playing with the best musicians in Havana's legendary nightclubs, so developing both the descaraga (Cuban jam session) and the mambo, a rhythm many credit he and his older brother Orestes, the bandleader, with naming in the late 1930s. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Cuban Mambo Legend Cachao Dies Mar 23, 2008
He worked under the baton of visiting guest conductors, such as Herbert von Karajan, Igor Stravinsky and Heitor Villa-Lobos, during his nearly 30-year career with the orchestra. "Stravinsky was my friend, I played the 'Firebird' and 'Petrouchka' with Stravinsky conducting in Cuba. He was a simple man, ugly like me, but very nice," Cachao said in a 1995 interview with the International Herald Tribune. (CBS News)
Israel 'Cachao' Lopez, 89; pioneered mambo music Mar 23, 2008
Cachao began performing with the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra as a teenager, working under the baton of visiting guest conductors including Herbert von Karajan, Igor Stravinsky and Heitor Villa-Lobos during his nearly 30-year career with the symphony. He also wrote hundreds of songs in Cuba for bands and orchestras, many based on the classic Cuban music style known as son. (Los Angeles Times)
Musician earns NJ arts fellowshipLittle combines classical and rock - but it's not classic rock Mar 23, 2008
Little said that he was inspired to write classical music after hearing "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky. "That just opened up a whole new world and did everything for me," Little said. (Hoboken Reporter, NJ)
Stravinsky experts in plagiarism row Mar 16, 2008
Two giants of the music world have clashed over their interpretation of the life of the great Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. Professor Stephen Walsh, author of the award-winning two-volume biography of the composer, has been accused of unfairness, inaccuracy and even plagiarism by Robert Craft, an American conductor and composer who was a pivotal figure in the last part of Stravinsky's life and has been described as being like a son to the composer and his wife Vera. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
'Carmina Burana' gives dancers an emotional rollercoaster Mar 9, 2008
While he was composing, so were the sweeping symphonic visionary Gustav Mahler, colorful Impressionist Claude Debussy, American modernist Charles Ives and 20th-century icon Igor Stravinsky. Orff didn't have the depth or intertwining of melodies or counterpoint to be found in classical compositions of the time. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Denmark's Raveonettes get fresh Feb 29, 2008
A more oblique artistic influence is Wagner's love of classical music, in particular the work of such pioneering Russian composers as Igor Stravinsky and Dmitry Shostakovich. The head Raveonette's decision to write and record every song on Whip It On, the duo's eight-song 2002 debut, in the key of B-flat minor was inspired largely by the fact Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 ( Babi Yar ) was composed primarily in the same key. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Free flight: Symphony tackles Stravinsky Feb 8, 2008
The Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky San Diego Symphony, conducted by Jahja Ling ... Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird Suite (1919) is one of the most dazzling and popular works in the orchestral repertoire. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Mode of Attack Jan 31, 2008
Choreographer Marius Petipa connected with Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Russia for "The Sleeping Beauty." Twentieth-century impresario Serge Diaghilev brought together the likes of Vaslav Nijinsky and Igor Stravinsky for "The Rite of Spring" in Paris. Martha Graham met up with the bold, clean lines of designer Isamu Noguchi in New York City, where they had a formidable long-term partnership. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Inside the Funeral Home Where Ledger Lay Jan 26, 2008
Gene Schultz, now retired, was president of the Frank E. Campbell funeral chapel, which, over the last century, has arranged funerals for such luminaries as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; actors James Cagney, Greta Garbo, and Joan Crawford; composers Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky and John Lennon; wild west legend Bat Masterson; mobster Frank Costello; muppeteer Jim Henson; business tycoons Malcolm Forbes and William Randolph Hearst; impresario Ed Sullivan; singer Judy Garland and... (ABC News)
Keola Beamer declines to take part in Grammy Awards Jan 6, 2008
Beamer described how he had experimented with the "tonal palette" of ki ho'alu, or slack-key guitar, to record classical works by composers Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Felix Mendelssohn, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and others in his Grammy-nominated "Ka Hikina O Ka Hau The Coming of the Snow" (Dancing Cat Records). But "in my humble opinion, my album is not really a Hawaiian record and shouldn't be in the category," said Beamer, who has recorded more than 19 albums in the ki ho'alu style. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Click for Full Story Dec 29, 2007
Thought for Today: "Sin cannot be undone, only forgiven." --Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer (1882-1971). (Source: Associated Press). (KWTX.com, TX)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Dec 27, 2007
The celebrated modern dance company returns to Boston with a mix of new works and old favorites, including this year's homage to the Wild West, "Saddle Up!"; the 2005 duet "Unfold"; and the Ailey-choreographed 1960 signature piece "Revelations." A soundtrack including Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, and opera composer Gustave Charpentier shows the company's range and explains its mass appeal. Thu 7:30 p.m., Fri and Sat 8 p.m., Sat 2 p.m., Sun 3 p.m. $35-$70. (Boston Globe)
Today in History - Dec. 29 Dec 22, 2007
Thought for Today: "Sin cannot be undone, only forgiven." _ Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer (1882-1971). A service of the Associated Press(AP). (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Fire & Ice lights the stage at Pequot Museum Auditorium Dec 14, 2007
The piece was choreographed by Sergei Vanaev to music by Igor Stravinsky ... The third piece, set to Igor Stravinsky s "Le Sacre du Printemps/The Rite of Spring" challenged some on stage because of the music s primitivism and random lack of beat. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Karlheinz Stockhausen, German Composer Who Stirred Beatles, Dies at Age 79 Dec 8, 2007
Of classical composers, Igor Stravinsky was an admirer, though not an uncritical one. Stockhausen's music was compared to Arnold Schoenberg and Oliver Messiaen before him. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Rap meets Bach at the iPod Philharmonic Dec 8, 2007
New Yorker staff writer Alex Ross, author of "The Rest Is Noise," a history of the 20th century through its music, points out that pop music has influenced a host of modern composers, such as George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky and Steve Reich. And like a growing number of academics, Ross feels a pop sensibility can bolster classical musicians' capacity to perform a neoclassical repertoire. (Los Angeles Times)
Mystic Ballet presents 'Fire and Ice' at Pequot Museum Dec 7, 2007
A dancer who trained at the Bolshoi Ballet has choreographed two premieres for the Mystic Ballet s second appearance at Foxwoods, on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 3 and 7 p.m. Sergei Vanaev, recently named resident choreographer and assistant artistic director at the Mystic Ballet, will present the U.S. premieres of two of his works, "Sonata," with music by Ludwig van Beethoven, and Igor Stravinsky s once notorious "The Rite of Spring." Also on the program, which carries the general title "Fire and Ice,"... (Westerly Sun, RI)
Four of the Sea Witch's minions Dec 5, 2007
Horton created a new soundtrack for the ballet, featuring music by such composers as Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy. I listened to compositions with water in the title and went from there, she said. (Wood River Journal, ID)
A noble failure in grasping Dylan Dec 4, 2007
Others have changed musical styles with as much regularity as Dylan - Miles Davis and John Lennon come to mind (not to mention Igor Stravinsky). But nobody has actually changed personas the way Dylan has, so Haynes's idea to have six actors, including an African-American boy and an Australian woman, portray him is a much smarter way to get at what makes Dylan tick than the biographical approach of recent movies about Johnny Cash or Ray Charles. (Boston Globe)
Breathing new life into 20th century music Nov 19, 2007
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross (below) does a good deal to combat that in his new book, "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century." Ross skillfully places composers like Richard Strauss, Aaron Copland, and Igor Stravinsky in the flesh and blood struggles of their day, giving the work context and vitality. And if the 543-page book isn't enough for you, Ross regularly updates his blog at. (Boston Globe)
Nadia Boulanger: Top Music Teacher Nov 12, 2007
She was friend of Igor Stravinsky Considered the most influential music teacher, Boulanger attracted students worldwide. Her teaching regimen and discipline were legendary: started at 8:00 a.m., sometimes earlier, and continued until 10 p.m. The list of students she taught and influenced reads like a who s who of modern music. (Suite101.com)
The Stone Church harbors The Bad Plus Nov 9, 2007
Shifting time signatures and contrasting textures made classic rock masterpieces (Rush's "Tom Sawyer") sound like an arrangement by Igor Stravinsky, while the overly romantic and grandiose rendition of David Bowie's "Life On Mars" highlighted the more lyrical or perhaps more classically trained aspects of the trio's technique. The group's original compositions best represented the trio's style, while also reflecting those musical idiosyncrasies which draw us all to music in the first place. (The New Hampshire, NH)
Sergei Diaghilev, Impresario Nov 5, 2007
An association with Igor Stravinsky began with the commissioning of The Firebird for and continued for 18 years until 1928, with Apollo. Later, new and exotic ballets by Fokine, with Benois and Bakst as designers, were followed by Nijinsky' modern works. (Suite101.com)
Lexington Symphony puts animals to music, and vice versa Nov 2, 2007
Roger Catlin, TV critic for the Hartford Courant, summed up the criticism when he sniffed, "It sounded a little off, as if the brass had warped like woodwinds in the Fenway rain." An unscientific survey of the blogosphere, though, suggests that most Red Sox fans liked it just fine - a far cry from 1944, when Igor Stravinsky famously ran afoul of the Boston Police Department on the grounds that his own mildly modernist arrangement of the anthem (which he had conducted with the Boston Symphony... (Boston Globe)
Francis Poulenc, Les Six Oct 28, 2007
The basis of his musical style remained unchanged: Igor Stravinsky, Gabriel Faur and contemporary popular music continued to be his sources, in his devotional music as well as his larger sacred compositions, for example his Stabat mater and Gloria. Poulenc's Significant Works. (Suite101.com)
Eudice Shapiro, 93; Hollywood musician Sep 25, 2007
On both series and at the Ojai Music Festival, she premiered works by Aaron Copland, Ingolf Dahl, Lou Harrison, Darius Milhaud and Igor Stravinsky, who became a friend until his death in 1971. Shapiro appeared as a soloist under conductors Eugene Goossens, Fritz Reiner and William Steinberg and played in chamber ensembles that included Artur Schnabel, Bruno Walter, Lili Kraus, Rudolf Firkusny and Milhaud. (Los Angeles Times)
War exhibits, classical art on display at Schaeffer Sep 6, 2007
Kraczyna's "Stravinsky" prints highlight his interest in composer Igor Stravinsky and, more specifically, his hand-written notes on the score for the "Rite of Spring," known as one of the first modern symphonies. "Kraczyna took the notes from composer's hand-written score and used musical notation and built figurative images upon the subject," Prince said. (Daily Orange, NY)
Dance Review: Videos enhance human artistry Sep 3, 2007
Dance has always been a collaborative process, from tribal dances to the great Tchaikovsky ballets to Diaghilev's list of artists that included George Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso. The Pillow Project: 'Projected. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
BBC Proms review: BBC Symphony Orchestra Aug 7, 2007
It has a fabulous glittering orchestral palette, and glowing harmonies, which were often very close to the bit of Russian exoticism which began the Prom - the Scherzo Fantastique, written by the very young Igor Stravinsky. There s even the outline of a quasi-folk tune, announced in all innocence by the soloist at the very beginning. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Composing in the computer age Jul 29, 2007
He tells of visiting Igor Stravinsky and finding that he had dampened his piano strings with cloth: "He'd play and the note would just be this 'plink,' and in his mind, he would assign the shape and the color of the note. That's what's missing -- that hearing it in your mind," he says. "The ear isn't as developed because there are too many helps." A member of the younger generation shares Bolcom's concern. (Boston Globe)
America the Beautiful Jun 29, 2007
Although he was not born in America, Ms. Mattis has included Igor Stravinsky because he eventually settled in the United States but also because she is in love with the image, shot by Arnold Newman in 1946. Stravinsky is seated at the piano but facing the photographer, his head on his hand, elbow on the instrument. (Bordentwo Register News, NJ)
Mac Morgan, 89; bass-baritone known for his tone, diction Jun 22, 2007
Mr. Morgan, who sang for many years with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, also performed under Sarah Caldwell and Igor Stravinsky and with the Goldovsky Opera Theater and the New York Philharmonic. While the family lived in Stockbridge, Norman Rockwell asked if one of their daughters could model for some of his Saturday Evening Post illustrations. (Boston Globe)
Dude, this music goes to a new level Jun 14, 2007
A lot of it sounds suspiciously like John Williams, of Star Wars fame ("He's the god," says Paul), and there are heavy influences from composers such as Erik Satie and Igor Stravinsky. All of it is extremely accessible. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Friends of Scott Fitzgerald and Picasso, Gerald and Sara Murphy were muses of Modernism Jun 9, 2007
ger, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray, Igor Stravinsky and Fitzgerald - all friends for whom the Murphys served as patrons or creative catalysts. Also included are the only seven surviving paintings by Gerald Murphy, along with letters the Murphys wrote to each other, personal artifacts and home movie footage of the couple and their intimate circle in Paris and at their Villa America at Cap d'Antibes in southern France. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Young Artists Symphony closes its season with a notable performance Jun 3, 2007
The talented violinist and pianist played complicated pieces by composers Antonin Dvorak and Igor Stravinsky as part of the San Diego Young Artists Symphony concert, Symphonic Sounds, on Saturday at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Reeves, a sophomore at Poway High School, said he's been playing the piano for eight years and the violin for seven years. (North County Times)
Walt Disney Academy Award Winner May 30, 2007
Cartoon characters moved to the music of famous classical composers including Paul Dukas, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky. The film cost an astounding US$2. (Suite101.com)
Unflinching look at edgy genius May 20, 2007
The son of an unlikely union between mobster father and Mormon mother, young Warren spent time under the tutelage of composer Igor Stravinsky; he wrote the B-side to the Turtles' "Happy Together" as a teenager; and honed his live chops as the Everly Brothers' band leader. Evidence of Zevon's brilliance is abundant in this oral history that's rife with anecdotes about his musical prowess, and the awe he inspired in friends, peers and paramours. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
The air this week May 16, 2007
Today 8 a.m.-10 p.m. The Igor Stravinsky Orgy, concluded (WHRB : 95. 3, ). (Boston Globe)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Apr 18, 2007
Significantly, he very well extended his strong influence into the modern age, in particular his style, as a teacher of Igor Stravinsky, Glazunov and Sergei Prokofiev. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov suffered from angina and died in Lyubensk on June 21, 1908. (Suite101.com)
Northwest ‘Pops” concert moved to the university’s Performing Arts Center Apr 16, 2007
Igor Stravinsky (selections from "The Firebird"), Richard Rogers (selections from "Victory at Sea"), Samuel Augustus Ward (America, the Beautiful) and others. Comments. (Maryville Daily Forum, MO)
Northwest Wind Symphony’s ‘Pops’ concert to feature works by Bernstein, Sousa Apr 11, 2007
Igor Stravinsky (selections from "The Firebird"), Richard Rogers (selections from "Victory at Sea"), Samuel Augustus Ward (America, the Beautiful) and others. As is traditional, this year's pops concert will conclude with John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever.". (Maryville Daily Forum, MO)
Denis Matsuev's travel favorites Apr 4, 2007
HOTELS Claridge's in London; Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg, suite with grand piano where both Fyodor Chaliapin, the great Russian singer, and the composer Igor Stravinsky once stayed. AIRLINES Nothing can match a private jet, but Matsuev - who is tall, at 1. (International Herald Tribune)
Symphony to perform today at CCSU Mar 11, 2007
During both symphonies, the "Firebird Suite," a 1910 ballet by Igor Stravinsky, will be performed. Salina said that in preparation, fifth-graders were given an instructional manual by the symphony in order to familiarize themselves with the composer and the piece. (New Britain Herald, CT)
Bobby Rosengarden, musician on 'Dick Cavett Show'; at 82 Mar 9, 2007
Bobby Rosengarden played with Duke Ellington, Igor Stravinsky, and Harry Belafonte ... He also played drums during a recording session with the Columbia Jazz Band conducted by composer Igor Stravinsky in 1965. (Boston Globe)
B. Rosengarden, 82; seasoned drummer, Cavett show bandleader Mar 4, 2007
He also played drums during a recording session with the Columbia Jazz Band conducted by composer Igor Stravinsky in 1965. In 1968, Rosengarden moved to ABC as the bandleader on Cavett's daytime talk show and then, beginning in 1969, Cavett's late-night show. (Los Angeles Times)
Stravinsky's clarity lost Feb 21, 2007
Oedipus Rex & Les Noces By Igor Stravinsky. Victorian Opera. (The Australian)
World renowned Dutch quartet comes to Seoul Feb 21, 2007
Such great composers as Gustav Mahler, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky once conducted the orchestra, while Bela Bartok and Sergei Rachmaninov performed symphonies they wrote with the orchestra. Currently, the symphony gives around 120 concerts annually around the globe. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Jazzman's Nod Feb 18, 2007
And, outside the recording studio, Byron has played the music of Igor Stravinsky and Herb Alpert, among many others, and collaborated with pioneering hip-hop group the SugarHill Gang. On his current Blue Note CD, "Do the Boomerang: The Music of Junior Walker," Byron delves into "Cleo's Mood," "Shotgun," "(I'm a) Roadrunner," "Pucker Up, Buttercup," "What Does It Take (to Win Your Love)" and other songs from the 1960s by Rr saxophonist and singer Autry DeWalt, known professionally as Jr. Walker. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
With one star snowed in, another steps in Feb 18, 2007
This week's program pairs two works for piano and orchestra by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) with two orchestral poems by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Veteran pianist (and regular Toronto Symphony guest) Alexander Toradze was joined by the TSO's composer-adviser Gary Kulesha on the podium. (Toronto Star)
Recital will feature clarinetist Feb 18, 2007
The "Contemporary Clarinet" recital will be held in the university's Fine Arts Center at 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road S., and feature music by Igor Stravinsky, Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio and Miklos Rozsa, as well as Yehuda himself. Jacksonville's public libraries on the Southside will feature tax help, study aid and other events in March. (Florida Times-Union)
Are you ready to make nice with the Chicks? Feb 13, 2007
For instance, Igor Stravinsky wrote the Rite of Spring, a ballet, in the early 1900 s. Most of you will not know this, but because of it s statement against the norm in music, the ballet created an uproar. Riots were started. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Obituary: Gian Carlo Menotti, opera composer, dies at 95 Feb 3, 2007
Igor Stravinsky dismissed Menotti's musical language as "mid-Mascagni." The composer Luigi Nono withdrew from a project rather than allow his music to appear on the same program as Menotti's. Yet well over 600 performances of Menotti's made-for-television "Amahl and the Night Visitors" have been counted, and the piece is done often by amateur companies or in high school gymnasiums. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A meaty blend of jazz and rock Jan 25, 2007
SOMERVILLE -- A mistress of Igor Stravinsky once revealed that the composer enjoyed watching zookeepers throw meat to the animals. So Firebird Ensemble's initiative to bring contemporary music to a carnivorous setting is not exactly unprecedented. (Boston Globe)
Before the Law Jan 24, 2007
A renowned jazz bassist in his day, Davis provided supple low end to everyone from Sarah Vaughn and Eric Dolphy to Igor Stravinsky and Van Morrison. And while that group's dynamic focused on spontaneous interplay, Cougar sought to refine such playing "into ideas that were actually set, but as fulfilling as improvisation. We wanted very immediate hooks and smooth transitions, but quick songs." With a pedigree in jazz, Cougar crafts intricate, instrumental explorations both low-key and dynamic,... (City Pages)
World premiere by Philip Glass, 'Appomattox,' set for Opera season Jan 24, 2007
The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky) -- William Burden, Laura Aikin, James Morris, Denyce Graves, Catherine Cook; Donald Runnicles, conductor; Robert Lepage, director; Carl Fillion, set designer; Franois Barbeau, costume designer; Etienne Boucher, lighting designer; Boris Firquet, video designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director. Nov. 23, 28, Dec. 1, 4, 7, 9 (m). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ballet at the Kravis Center Jan 21, 2007
The ballet was made as a collaborative effort between Balanchine and his friend, composer Igor Stravinsky. In Afternoon of a Faun, two dancers fall in love during a fleeting encounter filled with beauty and discovery. (The Palm Beach Post)
War and speech fare unevenly at Boston Symphony Chamber Jan 17, 2007
On Sunday afternoon, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players presented an inspired pairing of works composed in the wake of World War I, when Modernism was still modern: Igor Stravinsky 's Suite from "L'Histoire du soldat " ("The Soldier's Tale") and William Walton 's "Fa ade (An Entertainment)." One fared better than the other. Stravinsky composed "The Soldier's Tale" in 1918, as the Bolshevik revolution made his temporary exile from Russia permanent. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Jaron's World: Morphing Messages Jan 11, 2007
The same can be said about music in the wakes of musicians like Igor Stravinsky or Louis Armstrong. Those people invented new menus and dials. (Discover Magazine)
