Memories and Commentaries - Brossura

Craft, Robert

 
9780571256051: Memories and Commentaries
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ISBN 10: 0571256058 ISBN 13: 9780571256051
Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2011

Sinossi

The conversations between Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft are unique in musical history.' Sunday Times The contents of the celebrated series of Conversations, dating from the last fifteen years of Stravinsky's life, were taken down by Robert Craft in informal talks with the composer. Craft lived for twenty-one years with the Stravinskys in their Hollywood home, or nearby, and for two more years in a next-door hotel room in New York. In the early 1950s he accompanied the composer on his concert tours, and from the mid-1950s to the end of Stravinsky's life co-conducted his concerts. Memories and Commentaries, the second of the series, is a brilliant portrait gallery in which Stravinsky, prompted by Craft, sets down with characteristic wit and insight his memories of such famous writers and musicians as Romain Rolland, Reynaldo Hahn, Lord Berners and Manuel de Falla. There are long sections devoted to Diaghilev, to Russian composers, to Stravinsky's childhood and youth in Russia, and detailed accounts of his collaboration with Benois (The Nightingale), Gide (Persephone) and Auden (The Rake's Progress). The Conversations books are the only published writings attributed to Stravinsky that are actually by him, in the sense of fidelity to the substance of his thoughts, making them required reading for all students and lovers of Stravinsky.

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Informazioni sull?autore

The distinguished conductor, Robert Craft, met Igor Stravinsky in 1948, and developed what proved to be an extraordinarily fruitful artistic partnership from then until the composer's death in 1971. Craft lived with the family in California and later in New York and remained close to the composer's widow Vera, until her death in 1982.

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Editore
Faber and Faber
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0571256058
ISBN 13 
9780571256051
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
202
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780571212422: Memories and Commentaries

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ISBN 10:  0571212425 ISBN 13:  9780571212422
Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2002
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