Francis does repudiate Craft's dismissals of Boulanger, but she does this much more effectively in her previous book, Teaching
Stravinsky: Nadia Boulanger and the Consecration of a Modernist Icon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), rather than through these letters.
Igor
Stravinsky's music has been studied from a variety of perspectives over the past century.
Hamelin and Andsnes are just as impressive in
Stravinsky's gleefully tricky neoclassical Concerto for two solo pianos.
Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity.
Ridden by veteran Jonathan Hernandez,
Stravinsky charged ahead just 150 meters into the race and went on to hit the wire a clear victor in the 1200-meter event that offered P600,000 to the champion.
The idea was to take
Stravinsky's 35-minute work for a huge orchestra and condense it into a 10- to 12-minute piece for woodwind quintet, capturing the essence of the work and highlighting the ingenious ways in which
Stravinsky uses woodwind instruments.
In his choreography, Hubert Essakow recreated the original themes of the 1913 ballet, while the new score by Jay Capperauld and Hugh Holton, performed by students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, was reminiscent of
Stravinsky's original.
STRAVINSKY'S ground-breaking ballet Rite Of Spring will get a 21st-century makeover in the Midlands next month with a fusion of live orchestral music, contemporary dance and 3D digital technology.
Coco Chanel & Igor
Stravinsky 15 THE abolition of the UK Film Council by the Government means that movies such as this dreary biopic would no longer benefit from Lottery money designed to widen and support the distribution and marketing of specialised films.
COCO CHANEL & IGOR
STRAVINSKY Cert 15, 119mins Almost a century before Brad and Angelina, fashionista Coco Chanel and composer Igor
Stravinsky were enjoying a celeb-on-celeb tryst that would have filled dozens of editions of Heat magazine.
For many the highlight of this spectacular programme of music will be
Stravinsky's ballet score, The Firebird.
Arthur Clowes sent in the following question: "
Stravinsky and Mozart are famous composers, but apart from being famous composers and anything to do with music, what else do
Stravinsky and Mozart have in common?'' Neil Willis suggested: "The thing that
Stravinsky and Mozart have in common, other than composers, is that they were famous racehorses."
In the middle of this activity, on September 26, 1929, a letter from Igor
Stravinsky arrived, stating that the composer was looking for Boulanger.
