Stravinsky in Context (Composers in Context)

Cambridge University Press, 12/17/2020
EAN 9781108422192, ISBN10: 1108422195

Hardcover, 370 pages, 23.1 x 19.6 x 2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Stravinsky in Context offers an alternative to chronological biography. Thirty-five short, specially commissioned essays explore the eventful life-tapestry from which Stravinsky's compositions emerged. The opening chapters draw on new research into the composer's childhood in St. Petersburg. Stravinsky's early, often traumatic upbringing is examined in depth, particularly in the context of his brother Roman's death, and religious sensibilities within the family. Further essays consider Stravinsky's years in exile at the centre of dynamic and ever-evolving cultural environments, the composer constantly refining his idiom and re-defining his aesthetics against a backdrop of world events and personal tragedy. The closing chapters review new material regarding Stravinsky's complicated relationship with the Soviet Union, whilst also anticipating his legacy from the varied perspectives of publishing, research and even - in the iconic example of The Rite of Spring - space exploration. The book includes previously unpublished images of the composer and his family.

Preface
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Part I. Russia and Identity
1. Memory and truth
Stravinsky's childhood (1882-1901) Catriona Kelly
2. Religion, life and death in St Petersburg Natalia Braginskaya
3. Kashperova and Stravinsky
the making of a concert-pianist Graham Griffiths
4. Reminiscences of Rimsky-Korsakov, his family and artistic circle Lidia Ader
5. Orthodoxies and unorthodoxies
Stravinsky's spiritual journey Ivan Moody
6. The Russian soul Rowan Williams
Part II. Stravinsky and Europe
7. Sergei Diaghilev and Stravinsky
from world of art to ballets russes John E. Bowlt
8. Paris and the Belle Époque Davinia Caddy
9. Paris, Art Deco, and the spirit of Apollo Jonathan Cross
10. Stravinsky's Spain
fan or mirror? Graham Griffiths
11. 'It is Venice that he loves…' Mauricio Dottori
Part III. Partnerships and Authorship
12. Stravinsky's sphere of influence
Paris and beyond Inessa Bazayev
13. Stravinsky and his literary collaborators Maureen Carr
14. Assuming co-authorship
Stravinsky and his 'ghost-writers' Valérie Dufour
15. Nadia Boulanger and Stravinsky
the transition to America Kimberly Francis
16. Conversations with Craft Anna Schmidtmann
Part IV. Performance and Performers
17. Challenges to realism and tradition
Stravinsky's modernist theatre Massimiliano Locanto
18. Igor Stravinsky and ballet as modernism Stephanie Jordan
19. Stravinsky's ear for instruments Chris Dromey
20. Towards a conductor-proof ideal Hannah Baxter
21. The pianist in the recording studio
re-imagining interpretation Daniel Barolsky
22. The legacy of Stravinsky as recorded history Per Dahl
Part V. Aesthetics and Politics
23. Stravinsky versus literature Emily Frey
24. Stravinsky and Greek antiquity Katerina Levidou
25. Stravinsky's response to 'Japonisme' Mai Ikehara
26. Stravinsky, modernism and mass culture Ross Cole
27. Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky
Adorno and others Alan Street
28. Stravinsky's 'problematical' political orientation during the 1920s and 1930s Erik Levi
Part VI. Reception and Legacy
29. The Apollonian clockwork re-wound Elmer Schönberger
30. Stravinsky reception in the USSR Philip Ewell
31. The Stravinsky/Craft conversations in Russian and their reception Olga Manulkina
32. Publishing Stravinsky Nigel Simeone
33.Copyright, the Stravinsky estate, and the Paul Sacher foundation Heidy Zimmermann
34. Evoking the past, inspiring the future Lynne Rogers
35. 'Music is, by its very essence, powerless to express anything at all' Daniel K L Chua
Index.