{"product_id":"stravinsky-in-the-americas-9780520299924","title":"Stravinsky in the Americas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStravinsky 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 famecatapulted 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This meticulously documented book sheds new light on the first two decades of Stravinsky's association with America, from the time of his first concert tour in 1925 to the premiere of the Symphony in Three Movements at Carnegie Hall in Janunary 1946. . . . This is not only a book to delight lovers of Stravinskian minutiae but also one that provides a richly documented study of a period in Stravinsky's life that has received relatively little attention.\"  * Gramophone *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Richard Taruskin\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART I: FIVE TRANSATLANTIC TOURS (1925–1940)\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tour I (1925)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tour II (1935)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Tour III (1936)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Tour IV (1937)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Tour V (October 1939–Late May 1940)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART II: DOMESTIC EXCURSIONS FROM WARTIME\u003cbr\u003e LOS ANGELES (1940–1946)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Excursions (1940–1941)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Excursions (1942)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Excursions (1943)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Excursions (1944)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Excursions (1945–Early 1946)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Stravinsky and “Neoclassicism”\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864905724247,"sku":"9780520299924","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520299924.jpg?v=1722273282","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stravinsky-in-the-americas-9780520299924","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}