This story begins and ends with a photo. It’s Igor Stravinsky, the legendary modernist composer. He looks a little worse for wear. In fact, it looks like a mug shot. The date on the Boston ...
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The New York Public Library celebrated the return of a copy of Igor Stravinsky's 1936 autobiography 72 years after it was ...
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The New York Public Library got an unexpected gift the week before Christmas - an overdue library book checked out from the ...
A long-overdue library book checked out in 1952 was finally returned to the New York Public Library's Stavros Niarchos ...
For much of his life, Stravinsky was in love with Vera Sudeikina; they met in 1921, finally marrying in 1940 after the death of Stravinsky's wife - his cousin Katerina Nossenko, whom Stravinsky ...
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Schola Cantorum, soloists, the composer conducting. Columbia ML 5383. Krenek's pathos in instantly communicative, the pain is very near the surface. Threni seems more ...
This week's Musical Menu explores Stravinsky and his love of Honey!
Unlike many other Russian exiles of his generation, Stravinsky did not plan to leave Russia permanently. He was working in Paris for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes enterprise when the First World War ...