MISSING FROM HIS MUSIC; THE MORE BOOKS WE READ ABOUT STRAVINSKY THE...

The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ......will recognise the unyielding stare of Igor Stravinsky, master of the modern world. Stravinsky is commonly ranked as greatest composer...for BBC2 - the ultimate design classic. Stravinsky, surfeited with celebrity, didn't even bother...

ANTHONY PHILLIPS: OUR MAN ON THE FRONT LINES

New York Beacon, The;  May 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ......time NAN supporter in many ways; and Anthony Phillips, Chair of NAN's Disabled Committee...Al Sharpton presented the award to Anthony Phillips, he said, "Anthony is at every march...nationally. He's a fine brother!" Indeed Anthony Phillips is a fine brother, and a man who overcomes...

Caring for Stravinsky

Musical Times;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Peter Hill Cambridge UP (Cambridge...170; L26.95/L9.95. ISBN 0 521 62221 2/ 0 521 62714 1. Stravinsky's late music Joseph N. Straus Cambridge UP (Cambridge, 2001); xviii, 260pp; L45, ISBN 0 521 80220 2. Stravinsky inside out Charles M. Joseph Yale UP (New Haven &...

Proms Stravinsky Day Royal Albert Hall, London

The Independent - London;  August 14, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Given the "reworking" theme at this year's Proms, it was inevitable that Stravinsky would figure prominently. In the event we got a Stravinsky Day - or Stravinsky afternoon and evening, to be precise. A "semi-staged" performance of The Soldier...

Stravinsky goes lovingly into CD age with 22-disc set

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 12, 1992 ;     609 words ......completely recorded as a performer as Igor Stravinsky. From his first piano disc in 1925 through...They had a public. (One of the reasons Stravinsky may have died the most wealthy composer...for about $300; lots of music, lots of Stravinsky. The predecessor of this edition is...

`Glimpses' of Stravinsky Often Leave Reader Adrift

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 27, 1993 ;     624 words ...Stravinsky Glimpses of a Life. By Robert Craft. St. Martin's Press. $22.95. Robert Craft's latest book about composer Igor Stravinsky is peculiar reading. Until the second half, which focuses...of the time, the reader is adrift. Craft arrived on Stravinsky's doorstep in 1948, a young composer and conductor ...

"Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934"

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 13, 2000 ;     445 words ..."Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France...Knopf, 696 pages. $35 The composer Igor Stravinsky looms huge over the 20th century, mostly...has been lacking in the literature on Stravinsky has been a thorough biographical accounting...

Stravinsky, Igor

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera;      604 words ...Stravinsky, Igor ( b Oranienbaum, 17 June 1882; d New York, 6 Apr...Petersburg with Kalafaty and Rimsky-Korsakov. Son of above. Stravinsky's first opera, The Nightingale (1914), both covers and...The Firebird , Petrushka , and The Rite of Spring . Stravinsky was the first to recognize the perils of ...

CLASSICAL: Stravinsky at his most radical In both versions of his...

The Independent - London;  October 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Igor Stravinsky was much possessed by death - and not...certain people still more central to Stravinsky's life, notably to his first wife Catherine...Threni (1958); or memorials to people Stravinsky scarcely knew composed frankly for...

Aljabr lays down Guineas gauntlet; Unbeaten Godolphin colt vies for...

The Racing Post (London, England);  September 21, 1998 ;     661 words ...ALJABR comprehensively outpointed Stravinsky in the Prix de la Salamandre at Longchamp...made all and held the late thrust of Stravinsky by half a length, only for the latter...at 8-1 (from 12-1), and pushing out Stravinsky to 10-1 from 4-1. But William Hill kept...

Stravinsky would have approved

Sunday Star-Times;  March 23, 2003 ;     653 words ...STRAVINSKY'S The Firebird is so exotically beautiful, so instantly...supreme ballet music that it is a shock to discover that Stravinsky was Diaghilev's third choice as composer for the ballet...a new masterpiece for the Ballets Russes. He wanted Stravinsky to be part of his amazing galaxy of creators, and ...

NEW RESOURCES NOTE MANY WAYS STRAVINSKY RECOMPOSED PERSONA.(Arts and...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 13, 2000 ;     462 words ......made an astute observation about Igor Stravinsky, the composer with whom he crossed swords...works.'' That was the impression that Stravinsky himself fostered, but it was not only...deny. A leitmotif in Stephen Walsh's ``Stravinsky - A Creative Spring: Russia and France...

Books: In the beginning was Stravinsky Noel Malcolm welcomes a biography...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 16, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Stravinsky - A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 by...artists tend to believe in their own originality, but in Stravinsky's case this belief was more than a mere expression of...For "literal", read "theological": like Almighty God, Stravinsky was creating a new world of notes ex nihilo, not ...

Sheer brilliance; The surge of speed and power shown by Stravinsky as he...

The Racing Post (London, England);  July 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ......brilliance. Yesterday we found it when Stravinsky eclipsed the July Cup field with a performance...The surge of speed and power shown by Stravinsky as he left them cold in the final furlong...here were 17 of the best around and Stravinsky left them gasping. This is what the...

Stravinsky in a class of his own; O'Brien eyeing Breeders' Cup Sprint...

The Racing Post (London, England);  July 9, 1999 ;     494 words ...STRAVINSKY provided a mesmeric and mocking response to the belief...Newmarket yesterday. Within strides of hitting the front, Stravinsky had powered clear of his rivals to register a four-length...phrase 'minor placings' been so appropriate in a Group 1. Stravinsky, who had looked so exciting as a ...