Stravinsky in the Americas : transatlantic tours and domestic excursions from wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945) /
Stravinsky 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 musicologi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | California studies in 20th-century music ;
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| Summary: | Stravinsky 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 which 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 fame, catapulted in large part by his collaborations with Hollywood and Disney and marked by his extramarital 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Roth Family Foundation imprint in music"-- page [i]. |
| Physical Description: | xxvi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520299924 0520299922 |