Full Description
Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. Contributors examine Stravinsky's interaction with Spanish and Latin American modernism, rethink the stylistic label "neoclassicism" with a section on the ideological conflict over his lesser-known opera buffa Mavra, and reassess his connections to his homeland, paying special attention to Stravinsky's visit to the Soviet Union in 1962. The essays also explore Stravinsky's musical and religious differences with Arthur Lourie, delve into Stravinsky's collaboration with Pyotr Suvchinsky and Roland-Manuel in the genesis of his groundbreaking Poetics of Music, and look at how the movement within stasis evident in the scores of Stravinsky's Orpheus and Oedipus Rex reflected the composer's fierce belief in fate.
Rare documents--including Spanish and Mexican interviews, Russian letters, articles by Arthur Lourie, and rarely seen French and Russian texts--supplement the volume, bringing to life Stravinsky's rich intellectual milieu and intense personal relationships. The contributors are Tatiana Baranova, Leon Botstein, Jonathan Cross, Valerie Dufour, Gretchen Horlacher, Tamara Levitz, Klara Moricz, Leonora Saavedra, and Svetlana Savenko.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments vii A Note on Transliteration and Titles of Works xiv Credits and Permissions xv Stravinsky in Exile JONATHAN CROSS 3 Who Owns Mavra? A Transnational Dispute INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ; TRANSLATIONS BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN, KATYA ERMOLAEV, LAUREL E. FAY, ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK, AND TAMARA LEVITZ 21 Stravinsky's Russian Library TATIANA BARANOVA MONIGHETTI 61 The Futility of Exhortation: Pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus GRETCHEN HORLACHER 79 Symphonies and Funeral Games: Lourie's Critique of Stravinsky's Neoclassicism KLARA MORICZ 105 Arthur Lourie's Eurasianist and Neo-Thomist Responses to the Crisis of Art INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY KLARA MORICZ; TRANSLATION BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN, KATYA ERMOLAEV, YASHA KLOTS, TAMARA LEVITZ, KLARA MORICZ, AND BORIS WOLFSON 127 Igor the Angeleno: The Mexican Connection TAMARA LEVITZ 141 Stravinsky Speaks to the Spanish-Speaking World INTRODUCTION BY LEONORA SAAVEDRA; INTERVIEWS TRANSLATED BY MARIEL FIORI IN COLLABORATION WITH TAMARA LEVITZ; DOCUMENT NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ 177 The Poetique musicale: A Counterpoint in Three Voices VALERIE DUFOUR; TRANSLATED BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN AND TAMARA LEVITZ225 Stravinsky: The View from Russia SVETLANA SAVENKO; TRANSLATED BY PHILIPP PENKA 255 Stravinsky's Cold War: Letters About the Composer's Return to Russia, 1960-1963 LETTERS TRANSLATED BY PHILIPP PENKA WITH ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK; INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARY, AND NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ 273 "The Precision of Poetry and the Exactness of Pure Science": The Parallel Lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky LEON BOTSTEIN 319 Index 349 Notes on Contributors 365
