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Book SynopsisBrings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in intellectual and musical contexts, this title includes essays that focuses on one of the important composers of the twentieth century.
Trade Review"Framed by Jonathan Cross's stylish response to the theme 'Stravinsky in exile', and Leon Botstein's thoughts on the rewards of considering the composer alongside fellow Russian exile Vladimir Nabokov, the book seeks new angles on Stravinsky and Russia in the years after 1912, and on the role of Russians ... during Stravinsky's time in France... [L]evitz herself can be unsparing in drawing a detailed, warts-and-all portrait of the great composer."--Arnold Whittall, Musical Times
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii A Note on Transliteration and Titles of Works xiv Credits and Permissions xv Stravinsky in Exile JONATHAN CROSS 3 Who Owns Mavra? A Transnational Dispute INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ; TRANSLATIONS BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN, KATYA ERMOLAEV, LAUREL E. FAY, ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK, AND TAMARA LEVITZ 21 Stravinsky's Russian Library TATIANA BARANOVA MONIGHETTI 61 The Futility of Exhortation: Pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus GRETCHEN HORLACHER 79 Symphonies and Funeral Games: Lourie's Critique of Stravinsky's Neoclassicism KLARA MORICZ 105 Arthur Lourie's Eurasianist and Neo-Thomist Responses to the Crisis of Art INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY KLARA MORICZ; TRANSLATION BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN, KATYA ERMOLAEV, YASHA KLOTS, TAMARA LEVITZ, KLARA MORICZ, AND BORIS WOLFSON 127 Igor the Angeleno: The Mexican Connection TAMARA LEVITZ 141 Stravinsky Speaks to the Spanish-Speaking World INTRODUCTION BY LEONORA SAAVEDRA; INTERVIEWS TRANSLATED BY MARIEL FIORI IN COLLABORATION WITH TAMARA LEVITZ; DOCUMENT NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ 177 The Poetique musicale: A Counterpoint in Three Voices VALERIE DUFOUR; TRANSLATED BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN AND TAMARA LEVITZ225 Stravinsky: The View from Russia SVETLANA SAVENKO; TRANSLATED BY PHILIPP PENKA 255 Stravinsky's Cold War: Letters About the Composer's Return to Russia, 1960-1963 LETTERS TRANSLATED BY PHILIPP PENKA WITH ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK; INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARY, AND NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ 273 "The Precision of Poetry and the Exactness of Pure Science": The Parallel Lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky LEON BOTSTEIN 319 Index 349 Notes on Contributors 365
