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 epoque / 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" / Valerie 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 Schonberger. 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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.