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5 days ago · Igor Stravinsky began his career with The Firebird. It was his first commissioned work, his theatrical debut, followed by a huge success. After the ballet was premiered in Paris, this previously unknown aspiring composer was now ranked among the main newsmakers of the new European art.
5 days ago · In his polemics, composer Igor Stravinsky in exile insisted on the liberating autonomy of the creative act. But the tangled history of his Symphony in Three Movements, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as a "victory symphony" in 1945, suggests a composition process that was less than fluent.
1 day ago · Petrouchka (1911 version): First Tableau: The Shrove-tide Fair. engineer: Robert Auger ( audio) (on 1972-07-23) producer: Seymour Solomon ( producer and founder of Vanguard Records) piano: Harold Lester ( Organist) (on 1972-07-23) orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra (on 1972-07-23)
The first major work Stravinsky composed entirely in the United States, the Symphony in Three Movements seems to pick up where the Rite of Spring left off with its rhythmic ostinatos and shock effects.
5 days ago · Igor Stravinsky is not a composer who is usually associated with symphonic form. Five of his compositions bear that name, however, even though they have little in common. The first major work Stravinsky composed entirely in the United States, the Symphony in Three Movements seems to pick up where the Rite of Spring left off with its rhythmic ostinatos and shock effects.
4 days ago · With this paper I intend to discuss Stravinsky's musical aesthetics (the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures given right after the outbreak of WWII –Poétique musicale), conveying and criticizing his notion of expression and of the musician as mere "executant", among others.
4 days ago · The first part, “Wedding,” set to Igor Stravinsky’s music, explores the hidden emotions of newlyweds, turning the ceremony into a profound ritual. This marks the 101st anniversary of Stravinsky’s ballet “Wedding,” with a fresh, modern interpretation by Avakhri.
