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Record Nr.

UNINA9911046711403321

Autore

Slim H. Colin

Titolo

Stravinsky in the Americas : Transatlantic Tours and Domestic Excursions from Wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945) / / H. Colin Slim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9780520971530

0520971531

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (623 pages)

Collana

California Studies in 20th-Century Music ; ; 23

Disciplina

780.92

B

Soggetti

Music - United States - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Abbreviated Contents -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Tour I (1925) -- 2. Tour II (1935) -- 3. Tour III (1936) -- 4. Tour IV (1937) -- 5. Tour V (october 1939-late May 1940) -- Introduction -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.