Stravinsky The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971

Name: Stravinsky The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971
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ISBN: 9780520256156

ISBN-10: 0520256158

ISBN-13: 9780520256156

Edition: 2008

Authors: Stephen Walsh

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Stephen Walsh's magisterial, engagingly written two-volumeStravinskyis the most detailed and extensive work available on the life of the man widely regarded as the greatest composer of the twentieth century. This second volume takes up the composer's story in 1934, in a Europe growing ever more chaotic in the lead-up to World War II. Walsh follows Stravinsky's emigration to the United States, where he courted Hollywood, associated with writers and artists including Aldous Huxley, W.H. Auden, and George Balanchine, began a career as a conductor and recording artist, and composed a string of masterpieces that changed the course of twentieth-century music.Stravinsky: The Second Exiletakes full…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 738
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Entr'acte: A House Divided


A Gentle and a Free Spirit


The Poet of Montparnasse


Graves of Academe


An Enemy of Democracy


Death Deals...


... and Wins


To the Magic Mountain


The Poetics of Survival


A House in the Hills


To Earn Is Human


The Broad Way and the Strait Gate


Distant Clashes of Arms


Orpheus in a New Guise


The Eye of the Needle


The Progress Begins


A Family Happy in Its Own Way


Death of a Prophet


The Time-Traveller Comes Ashore


Count One, Count Two, Count Twelve


Brief Encounter


Competition of the Gods


An Echo Chamber by Candlelight


The Eternal Footman Holds His Coat


Talking the Book


He Hath Set Me in Dark Places


The Pilot Fish at Sea


A Strange Concoction


Largo al Factotum


Sinking the Ark


A Guest in His Own Country


The Sacre Papers


The Sacrifice of Sir Isaiah


Smiling for the Camera


Final Curtain


A Family Affair


A Fine and Private Place


But None Do There Embrace


Stravinsky's Works from 1935


Notes


Bibliography


Index