Stravinsky in the Americas (eBook)

Transatlantic Tours and Domestic Excursions from Wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945)

H. Colin Slim (Autor)

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2019
488 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520971530 (ISBN)

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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 famecatapulted 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.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Richard Taruskin
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: FIVE TRANSATLANTIC TOURS (1925–1940)
1. Tour I (1925)
2. Tour II (1935)
3. Tour III (1936)
4. Tour IV (1937)
5. Tour V (October 1939–Late May 1940)

PART II: DOMESTIC EXCURSIONS FROM WARTIME
LOS ANGELES (1940–1946)
6. Excursions (1940–1941)
7. Excursions (1942)
8. Excursions (1943)
9. Excursions (1944)
10. Excursions (1945–Early 1946)

Appendix: Stravinsky and “Neoclassicism”
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.3.2019
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in 20th-Century Music
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in 20th-Century Music
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1925 • America • American Culture • american shores • Anti Semitism • collaborations • contemporary musicians • Correspondence • Disney • Ephemera • extra marital affairs • Hollywood • Igor Stravinsky • Larger Than Life • midcentury america • Music Industry • musicologist • Photographs • popular figure • pre craft period • radical european art music composer • Rise to Fame • transatlantic tours • World War 2
• ISBN-13: 9780520971530 / 9780520971530