Stravinsky in the Americas : transatlantic tours and domestic excursions from wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945)
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Stravinsky in the Americas : transatlantic tours and domestic excursions from wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945)
（California studies in 20th century music, 23）
University of California Press, c2019
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Bibliography: p. 407-436
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Richard Taruskin
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: FIVE TRANSATLANTIC TOURS (1925-1940)
1. Tour I (1925)
2. Tour II (1935)
3. Tour III (1936)
4. Tour IV (1937)
5. Tour V (October 1939-Late May 1940)
PART II: DOMESTIC EXCURSIONS FROM WARTIME
LOS ANGELES (1940-1946)
6. Excursions (1940-1941)
7. Excursions (1942)
8. Excursions (1943)
9. Excursions (1944)
10. Excursions (1945-Early 1946)
Appendix: Stravinsky and "Neoclassicism"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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