Title: Stravinsky in the Americas :
Authors: Slim, H. Colin; Taruskin, Richard,
Date: 2019
Publisher: University of California Press,
Physical description: xxvi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: "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 extra-marital 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"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Five transatlantic tours (1925-40) -- Five domestic excursions from wartime Los Angeles (1925-40) -- Appendix : Stravinsky and "neo-classicism."
Notes: "Roth Family Foundation imprint in music"-- page [i].
Subject headings (LCSH): Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.; Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Criticism and interpretation.; Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Travel--United States.