Memories and Commentaries [New One-Volume Edition Compiled and Edited by Robert Craft]
Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft
Language: English
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 2002
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- Title
- Memories and Commentaries [New One-Volume Edition Compiled and Edited by Robert Craft]
- Author
- Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, London
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0571212425
- ISBN 13
- 9780571212422
- Illustrator
- B&W photos
- Edition
- (NAP).
The conversations between Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft are unique in musical history. The contents of this celebrated series of Conversations, dating from the last fifteen years of Stravinsky's life, were taken down by Robert Craft in informal talks with the composer. Craft lived for twenty-one years with the Stravinskys in their Hollywood home, or nearby, and for two more years in a next-door hotel room in New York. In the early 1950s he accompanied the composer on his concert tours, and from the mid-1950s to the end of Stravinsky's life co-conducted his concerts.
This newly edited and re-structured one-volume version brings Stravinsky's reflections on his childhood, his family life, professional associates and personal friendships into sharper focus and places the major compositions in their cultural milieux. The Conversations books are the only published writings attributed to Stravinsky that are actually 'by him', in the sense of fidelity to the substance of his thoughts, making this volume required reading for all students and lovers of Stravinsky's music.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
The distinguished conductor, Robert Craft, met Igor Stravinsky in 1948, and developed what proved to be an extraordinarily fruitful artistic partnership from then until the composer's death in 1971. Craft lived with the family in California and later in New York and remained close to the composer's widow Vera, until her death in 1982.
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