Research Catalog

Title

Stravinsky in context / edited by Graham Griffiths, City, University of London.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Griffiths, Graham, 1954-

Description

xv, 352 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 Petersburg. Stravinsky's early, often traumatic family experience is examined in depth, particularly in the context of his brother Roman's death and religious sensibilities within the family. Further essays consider the composer's many years in exile at the centre of dynamic and constantly-evolving cultural environments, Stravinsky forever refining his idiom and redefining his aesthetics against a backdrop of world events and personal tragedy. The closing chapters review new material regarding Stravinsky's complicated relationship with the Soviet Union, whilst also anticipating his legacy from the varied perspectives of publishing, research and even, in the iconic example of The Rite of Spring, space exploration. The book includes previously unpublished images of the composer and his family"--

Series Statement

Composers in context

Uniform Title

Composers in context.

Subjects

• Music
• Composers
• Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
• Music > 20th century > History and criticism
• Biographies
• 1900-1999
• Composers > Biography
• Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 > Criticism and interpretation
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-340) and index.

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 -- Pari IV, Performance and performers: Challenges to realism and tradition : Stravinsky's Modernist theatre / Massimiliano Locanto. Igor Stravinsky and ballet as Modernism / Stephanie Jordan. Stravnisky'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.

Call Number

JME 21-129

ISBN

• 9781108422192
• 1108422195
• 9781108434720
• 110843472X
• 9781108381086 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781108390262 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020019653

OCLC

1154088345

Title

Stravinsky in context / edited by Graham Griffiths, City, University of London.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Composers in context

Composers in context.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-340) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Griffiths, Graham, 1954- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Stravinsky in context 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108381086 (DLC) 2020019654

Research Call Number

JME 21-129