Stravinsky in the Americas : Transatlantic Tours and Domestic Excursions from Wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945) Hardback
by H. Colin Slim
Part of the California Studies in 20th-Century Music series
Hardback
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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 that 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:488 pages, 107
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:05/03/2019
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- ISBN:9780520299924
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:488 pages, 107
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:05/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520299924
