Themes and conclusions / [by] Igor Stravinsky

Stravinsky, Igor

1972, First Edition. London : Faber and Faber. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #454351
ISBN: 0571083080

Physical description; 328 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; Part one. Squibs. Words ; New enemies of art ; Art and money ; The rising cost of art ; An imperfect science ; Education by automation ; Talent and the population explosion ; Provincialism ; Form and function ; Five examples ; Conspiracy of silence ; Longevity ; The terminological crisis ; By any other name? ; Individuality ; Change of life ; Eye music ; Envoi -- Programme notes. Pribaoutki ; Le Chant du Rossignol ; Symphonies of Wind Instruments ; Eight Instrumental Miniatures ; Three Sacred Choruses ; Four Etudes for Orchestra ; Jeu de Cartes ; Dumbarton Oaks Concerto ; Symphony in C ; Danses Concertantes ; Orpheus ; The Rake's Progress. 'La Prima Assoluta' / Vera Stravinsky -- Greeting Prelude ; Abraham and Isaac ; Elegy for J.F.K. ; Variations ; Introitus: T.S. Eliot in Memoriam -- Memoir. A memoir -- Part two. Interviews. Transcript of BBC television interview ; In the name of Jean-Jacques! ; A talk with Stravinsky ; A perfect total ; A decade later ; Interview ; Stravinsky at eighty-five ; Side effects I ; Side effects II ; Where is thy sting? ; Progress report ; Portrait of the artist as an old man (cont'd) ; Rap session ; Borborygms -- Part three. Prefaces. Some perspectives of a contemporary ; Gesualdo di Venosa: new perspectives ; Svadebka (Les Noces): an instrumentation -- Letters. To the Los Angeles Times ; To the Los Angeles Times ; To Wolfgang Wagner ; To the Composer ; To the New York Times ; To the New York Times ; To the New York Times ; To the Los Angeles Times ; To The Nation ; To The New York Times -- Part four. On conductors and conducting -- Part five. Reviews. Spring fevers ; Wagner's prose ; Schoenberg's letters ; A realm of truth -- Part six. Columns. On Beethoven's piano sonatas ; Nowhere to go ; The maker of libretti ; The filter and the Flood -- Appendix. Vera Stravinsky to a cousin in Moscow. Subjects; Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971. Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971 - Writings. Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971 ; Interviews. Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971 ; Correspondence. Composers ; Interviews. Music History and criticism. Music. Composers Russia 20th century.

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