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Article: RUSSIAN FOLK REBEL TANGLEWOOD-BOUND.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 2, 1995
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Byline: RICHARD DYER The Boston Globe
In 1923, Igor Stravinsky finished ``Les Noces,'' his ``Russian choreographic scenes with singing and instrumental music'' scenes that depict an ancient Russian peasant wedding ritual.
When he composed his first autobiography, a dozen years later, Stravinsky described ``Les Noces'' as entirely his own creation an evocation of pre-Christian ritual, not a literal re-creation of one. ``I borrowed nothing from folk pieces, with the exception of the theme of one factory song in the last tableau,'' he wrote.
Stravinsky was not always candid in describing his own work, and by 1935 he was eager to ...