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| | Igor Stravinsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso collaborated on Pulcinella in 1920. | | | A quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian, Stravinsky was one of the most authoritative composers and artists of 20th century music, both in the West and in his native land. | | | When Stravinsky met Vera in the early 1920s she was married to the painter and stage designer Serge Sudeikin, but they soon began an affair which led to her leaving her husband. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stravinsky
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| | DanceWorks SideSteps - People: Igor Stravinsky |
| | For the 1909 ballet season Stravinsky was invited to orchestrate various pieces of ballet music, including two piano numbers by Frédéric Chopin for Les Sylphides. | | | In the early postwar years, Stravinsky's ties with Diaghilev and Ballets Russes were renewed. | | | Igor Stravinsky is often considered something of a revolutionary, in part based on the riotous reception of his ballet The Rite of Spring (see separate article). |
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http://www.danceworksonline.co.uk/sidesteps/people/stravinsky.htm
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| | Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Prince Igor: Stravinsky |
| | Stravinsky prospers in other surroundings: in festivals, such as Lincoln Center’s and Carnegie’s this season; on recordings, where conductors such as Tilson Thomas and Riccardo Chailly have brought Stravinsky performance to a radiant level; and, most important, at the ballet, where his music is fleshed out by dancers. | | | Stravinsky’s new music and new rhetoric set off a feeding frenzy that exceeded even the fuss over the "Rite." A second stream of twentieth-century music—a kind of tonal modernism—flowed out from him, and single pieces of his inspired entire careers. | | | Perhaps Stravinsky later in life was seeking a substitute for Gury, with whom he survived the coldness of his father’s home. |
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http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/05/stravinsky.html
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| | Stravinsky |
| | Arguably Stravinsky's most important work, arguably his best, and at the time of its composition arguably the most shockingly controversial work the musical world had yet seen, Stravinsky's ballet about pagan Russia caused quite a stir in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees at its premiere in 1913. | | | Stravinsky went with the company to Paris in 1910 and spent much of his time in France from then onwards, continuing his association with Dyagilev in Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). | | | For me, however, Stravinsky was at his most sublime when he wrote for the theater. |
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http://www.music.eku.edu/faculty/nelson/mus755/stravinsky.html
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| | Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
| | Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, completed in 1912 for Diaghiler's Ballets Russes, is a synthesis of the new ideas in musical thought which had begun to take shape with Debussy only a few years earlier. | | | It is Stravinsky's new combinations of existing styles, as well as some of his own stylistic contributions, that give The Rite of Spring its strong, unique personality. | | | The riot that ensued on opening night, and which so enraged the composer, was nevertheless an indication of the great impact the work was to have on society. |
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http://www.fundeling.com/pstravinsky.html
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| | Internet Public Library: Music History 102 |
| | Stravinsky applied his imagination and the energetic rhythms of The Rite of Spring to the choral work Les Noces (The Wedding), a piece scored for only four pianos, percussion, and voices. | | | With his ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913, with its representations of prehistoric pagan Russian rituals and sacrifice, Stravinsky's music ignited the most famous riot in the history of music. | | | In the 1950s, Stravinsky shocked the musical world by turning to serialism and produced the twelve-tone ballet Agon and the choral work Canticum Sacrum, among others. |
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http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/mushist/twen/stravinsky.htm
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| | Biography |
| | Stravinsky regained his composure in America, feeling that his music was once again being appreciated and being able to associate with intellectuals and celebrities. | | | Stravinsky met Rimsky-Korsakov's son, and his interest in composition grew as he spent more time composing on his own. | | | Stravinsky found France's influence on his music was beginning to decline. |
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http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~tan/Stravinsky/biography.html
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| | Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Stravinsky |
| | Stravinsky wrote music with the craft of a fine jeweler. | | | He turned to serialism and became strongly influenced by the manner of Anton Webern, although he never lost his personal musical imprint. | | | After The Rake's Progress, Stravinsky felt he had reached a creative impasse with the neoclassic style. |
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http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/stravinsky.html
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| | AllRefer.com - Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | The work of Stravinsky interested the ballet impressario Sergei Diaghilev, and Stravinsky's first strikingly original compositions : L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird, 1910) and Petrouchka (1911) : were written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris. | | | Influenced by 18th-century music, he embarked on an austere, neoclassical style in such works as the poetic dance-drama Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale, 1918), the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927; text by Jean Cocteau after Sophocles), and the choral composition Symphonie de psaumes (Symphony of Psalms, 1930). | | | At the beginning of World War I, Stravinsky moved to Switzerland, where he composed several works based on Russian themes, including the ballet Les Noces (The Wedding, 1923). |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/S/Stravins.html
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| | The Classical Music Pages Quarterly |
| | Stravinsky had to do much of the piano playing during rehearsals, dye to the fact that no one else could play his music. | | | Stravinsky with sounds, I with movements." (23) Likewise, Benois through the libretto and his artwork. | | | Stravinsky also feared that the French musicians would not like the ballet because of its obvious criticism of Russian music. |
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http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/stravinsky_shearer.html
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| | Notes on Pulcinella Suite (Igor Stravinsky) |
| | In 1919 Sergei Diaghilev, the impressario of the Ballets Russes whose collaborations with Stravinsky, including The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring, had brought the composer to international prominence, approached him with a new project: a ballet based on music by the eighteenth-century composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, with set designs by Pablo Picasso. | | | In his monumental study of the early Stravinsky, Richard Taruskin attributes these winking gestures to what he calls the composer's "Turanian" style, a style reflecting "the land of Stravinsky's musical imagining," where a self-consciously Russian, or at least eastern aesthetic works to undermine the certainties of the Western musical tradition. | | | Far from substantially recomposing the music, Stravinsky approached the material with a light hand, scoring the ballet for a scaled-down orchestra that nicely mimics the clarity of the pre-Classical style. |
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http://www.loudounsymphony.org/notes/stravinsky-pulcinella.html
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| | AN AMAZING CREATIVE OUTBURST: Four Ballets by Stravinsky |
| | Balanchine, too, later said Stravinsky's music was "white on white." Certainly it is the clarity, calm, even serenity, of that music, for strings along, which makes it seem almost infinitely remote from the excitements of the earlier ballets. | | | It was an amazing creative outburst, and for many people Stravinsky's reputation as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century depends on these three scores more than on the remainder of his large output. | | | Of these four ballets, three were written for Serge Diaghilev's Russian Ballet troupe and, though each is a major work, they were composed almost consecutively, with scarcely any other music between them. |
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http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/3660/ballet_s.html
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| | Igor Stravinsky's biography |
| | Diaghilev first asked Stravinsky to orchestrate some piano pieces by Chopin as ballet music and then, in 1910, commissioned an original ballet, The Firebird, which was immensely successful. | | | "Stravinsky's extensive output includes compositions of almost every kind, for voices, instruments, and the stage; and his innovations in rhythm, harmony, and tone color had an enormous influence on twentieth-century music. | | | When his third ballet, The Rite of Spring, had its premiere in Paris in 1913, a riot erupted in the audience--spectators were shocked and outraged by its pagan primitivism, harsh dissonance, percussiveness, and pounding rhythms--but it too was recognized as a masterpiece and influenced composers all over the world. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/8616/composerfiles/stravinsky.html
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| | Stravinsky’s Saliva |
| | Stravinsky had worked with the French writer Jean Cocteau for the libretto of Oedipus Rex, and with Swiss writer Andre Gide for Persephone. | | | After studying Stravinsky’s writings and examining the syllabic patterns used in Greek poetry, Carr concluded that much of Stravinsky’s inspiration for composing these works came from the sounds and rhythms of his collaborators’ written text. | | | The final versions of Stravinsky’s works no longer cause riots: He is now recognized as one of music’s greatest innovators of the 20th century, and is sometimes called the musical counterpart to Picasso. |
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http://www.rps.psu.edu/0309/saliva.html
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| | Stravinsky, Igor |
| | Stravinsky was most deeply impressed by the music of Anton Webern. | | | This piece inaugurates Stravinsky's neo-classical period by which Stravinsky (in a way) rediscovered the past in a time when avant-garde music was flourishing all over the world. | | | In late 1930s Stravinsky was tired of old Europe: another war was imminent, his wife and one daughter had died of tuberculosis, and French critics who violently attacked him for andquotLe Sacre du printemps" (calling it andquotLe Massacre du printemps") were now complaining about his new neo-classical style. |
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http://stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/stravinsky1971.html
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| | Island of Freedom - Igor Stravinsky |
| | Stravinsky was catapulted into the musical limelight with the composition of three ballets for the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev in Paris: Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913). | | | Stravinsky's unpredictable individualism and originality precluded the formation of a school of composition, but the influence of his music has been widespread, ranging from Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich to Darius Milhaud, Aaron Copland, and many others. | | | Stravinsky continued to compose ballets and collaborated with Balanchine on Jeu de cartes (1936), Orpheus (1947), and Agon (1957). |
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http://www.island-of-freedom.com/STRAV.HTM
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| | On the Rhythm of Igor Stravinsky's Great 'The Rite of Spring' |
| | Stravinsky was one of the most consciously philosophic of composers, and there is a statement of his, from his book, The Poetics of Music, that is beautiful. | | | And of his compositions, the one seen as having the most powerful and most subtle of rhythms is his l9l3 ballet score, The Rite of Spring. | | | Stravinsky writes: "Music to me is a power which justifies things." |
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http://www.edgreenmusic.org/Stravins-a.htm
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| | Stravinsky's "Stolen" Rags (1919: Jazz on Tour) The Chronicle of Jazz Abbeville Press |
| | Stravinsky's friend, the Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet, had visited the US two years before and brought back the sheet music for various rags, and it was Ansermet's glowing reports of Sidney Bechet' clarinet playing in London in 1919 that stimulated Stravinsky to compose his Three Pieces for Clarinet in 1919. | | | Stravinsky wrote two more works in this period that were heavily influenced by ragtime. | | | The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, a self-styled musical "kleptomaniac" whose genius could transform almost any compositional source material into a highly original work of art, began to borrow from ragtime in 1918 when he included a ragtime-style dance in his music-theater piece The Soldier's Tale. |
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http://www.abbeville.com/jazz/043.asp
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| | Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music |
| | Stravinsky made an immediate impression in Paris with his score for L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), for the Ballets Russes of Dyagilev. | | | A versatile composer, inventive in changing styles, he may be seen as the musical counterpart of the painter Picasso. | | | After works on a smaller scale in war-time, Stravinsky turned again to ballet for Dyagilev in Pulcinella, based on music wrongly attributed to Pergolesi. |
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http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/default.asp?pn=Composers&char=S&ComposerID=1003
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| | Stravinsky's first extended Neoclassial work - and he never used that label - was the 1919 comic ballet ``Pulcinella.'' Impressario Sergei Diaghiiev asked Stravinsky to fashion a ballet from pieces by the 18th-century composer Giovanni Pergolesi. | | | Stravinsky's most obvious homage to Mozart's time is his 1951 opera ``The Rake's Progress.'' Set in the 18th century, the work abandons the continuous flow of music common in opera since Richard Wagner's revolutionary 19th-century efforts. | | | Stravinsky said of his 1924 Piano Sonata that he wanted to write ``instrumental music pure and simple, untrammeled by any scenic consideration.'' |
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http://www.azstarnet.com/public/packages/reelbook/153-4062.htm
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| | Igor Stravinsky and the Pianola |
| | Pianolas were well-known in Russia before the revolution, but it seems likely that Stravinsky first became aware of their real musical potential in Berlin in late 1912, where he joined Diaghilev's Ballets Russes on tour, for the opening of "Petrushka" on 4 December. | | | Since Stravinsky had sold the exclusive rights of "Les Noces" to Diaghilev for a three-year period beginning in 1920, he had to abandon his ideal instrumentation in favour of the final version for four pianos and percussion. | | | During the 1920s, the firm of Pleyel, which was the major musical establishment in Paris, furnished Stravinsky with a studio in its headquarters in the rue Rochechouart. |
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http://www.pianola.org/pages/history/stravinsky.html
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| | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
| | Stravinsky returned to his native Russia for a short visit in 1962. | | | Born in 1882 in a small town near St. Petersburg, Stravinsky's early exposure to music came from his father who was a bass in the Russian Imperial Opera. | | | This encounter was followed by commissions from Diaghilev for a series of ballets for the Russian Ballet (i.e., The Firebird, 1910; Petrushka, 1911; and Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring, 1913). |
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http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/music/kamien/student/olc/27.htm
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Igor Stravinsky |
| | He invited Stravinsky to compose a ballet on the legend of The Firebird, Lyadov having failed to meet his deadline, for 1910 season. | | | Yet another turning-point was the ballet Orpheus (1947), which had led Stravinsky to study of Monteverdi, and a meeting with the young Amer. | | | Its success made Stravinsky world-famous, and was followed by Petrushka (1911) and by The Rite of Spring (1913), the f.p. |
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http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/stravinsky.html
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| | TIME 100: Artist & Entertainers - stravinsky |
| | Yet all his life Igor Stravinsky has written music, sometimes great music, to order--for people who would hire him on his terms. | | | The Firebird, Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky's best ballet scores, were commissioned. | | | He has composed a polka for elephants for the Ringling Brothers, a Scherzo à la Russe for Paul Whiteman, Ballet Scenes for Billy Rose, an Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his jazzband. |
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http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/stravinsky_related.html
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| | Composers - Auctions |
| | Igor Stravinsky (15 Critiques), N.Y., 1949 - $4.99 | | | Stravinsky BALLET Apollo Musagete + CANTATA and Concerto - $5.99 | | | ZRG 720 Stravinsky Mass / Poulenc / Preston - $8.75 |
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http://www.classicalmus.com/composers/stravins.html
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| | Anecdote - Igor Stravinsky - Stravinsky on the Move |
| | Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1976) Russian composer [noted for his symphonies, operas (notably The Rake's Progress, 1951), and ballets - among them The Firebird (1920), Petrushka (1911), and Le Sacre du Printemps (1913)] | | | After leaving Russia, Igor Stravinsky lived for a while in Switzerland and then moved to Paris. | | | Shortly thereafter, he was asked why he made such a move at his advanced age. |
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http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=14595
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| | Stravinsky News |
| | Most performances of Stravinsky's operatic masterpiece "The Rake's Progress" emphasize its pitiless, pasteboard side: the cynical chill of W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman's libretto or the steely virtuosity of... | | | George Balanchine, the greatest classical choreographer of the 20th century, stripped ballet down to the bare bones in his seminal neoclassic works. | | | Just two weeks before Tchaikovsky's death from cholera, young Stravinsky and the elder composer met backstage at the Imperial Opera in St Petersburg where Stravinsky's father had just sung in Glinka's Ruslan... |
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http://www.topix.net/who/stravinsky
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| | BBC - Music / Profiles - Igor Stravinsky |
| | Peter Porter on his poem "Stravinsky in Hollwood" | | | Listen: Lina Lalandi remembers her friendship with Stravinsky | | | Try the search box to the right, or the Artist Profiles. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/stravinsky.shtml
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| | IgorStravinsky.com - 20th century composer |
| | Considered by many the greatest composer of the 20th century, Stravinsky was both composer and conductor. | | | Historically he is perhaps best known for breaking new musical ground, because of the riot which occurred at the premier of his ballet 'The Rite of Spring' (1913). |
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http://www.igorstravinsky.com
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| | Igor Stravinsky Pianola Works |
| | On the face of it, it seems strange that a worldly-wise, successful composer like Stravinsky should lock himself away for hours in a small studio and arrange his own music for a whizz-bang of an instrument called the pianola. | | | virtuoso Rex Lawson performing three works by Stravinsky | | | Pianolas don't always play with an inexorable tempo and at triple forte; they can and should sound as musically sensitive as any other instrument, and Stravinsky himself enjoyed playing them... |
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http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Igorrex.shtml
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| | "All Stravinsky" at Pacific Northwest Ballet |
| | PNB lays bare the evocative originality of Stravinsky with three extraordinary compositions for ballet, including the primal forces at work in Tetley's The Rite of Spring, making its Seattle Premiere in this mixed repertory program. | | | "Dance and music became full and inspired partners in the 20th Century and nowhere with greater power and lasting influence than in collaborations with the genius of Igor Stravinsky." | | | Miss the traffic and join PNB Artistic Directors, Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, and special guests for a post-performance QandA session. |
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http://www.pnb.org/season/stravinsky.html
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps; Fireworks; The Firebird Suite |
| | Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps; Fireworks; The Firebird Suite | | | Do you look at Le Sacre as an outgrowth from the impressionism of Debussy, or as a clean, pre-serialist piece? | | | Ozawa showed alot of promise in his early years, and this recording, from 1968 when he was just 33, was made 5 years before he became music director of the Boston Symphony, (1973) succeeding outgoing conductor William Steinberg. |
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| | Igor Stravinsky |
| | Stravinsky's father was a singer at the opera and thus Stravinsky became... | | | Find where Igor Stravinsky is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Igor Stravinsky |
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| | Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Copland |
| | He belongs to a generation of composers - along with Virgil Thomson, Roy Harris, and Walter Piston - which not only raised our native music to a thoroughly professional level, but put it on an equal footing with contemporary developments in European modernism. | | | As Stravinsky once remarked, "Why call Copland a great American composer? |
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http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/copland.html
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| | Stravinsky's Religious Works |
| | A short biography of Stravinsky, with a peek at his attitude to composing religious works. | | | Stravinsky, a devout follower of the Orthodox church, takes it upon himself to compose a Catholic Mass. | | | A short list of some publications that are of interest to any Stravinsky fan. |
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http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Stravinsky
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| | S A N F R A N C I S C O C L A S S I C A L V O I C E |
| | The first movement isn’t the most shapely or well-organized Tchaikovsky ever wrote. | | | The orchestra has made numerous recordings of the composer’s music, under several music directors. | | | The SFS has, of course, had a long association with the works of Igor Stravinsky. |
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http://www.sfcv.org/arts_revs/sfsym_9_28_04.php
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| | Stravinsky and the Profane Trinity |
| | I thought I shouldn't interrupt the maestro, to divert his thoughts. | | | And what if he was thinking about some music, composing something? | | | I even knew which building he lived in." |
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http://www.jobim.com.br/colab/e.strav.html
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| | Stravinsky's Sizzlin' Shack |
| | © Stravinsky's Sizzlin' Shack 2005 - Fine Nude Art Photographed by Tommy Edwards - | | | Does it mean its the end of this blog, ie. | | | Stravinsky's Sizzlin Shack is just taking a much needed holiday from blogging. |
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http://stravinskyss.blogspot.com
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| | Stravinsky Choral Music |
| | Stravinsky's Topology: An Examination of his Twelve-Tone Works through Object-Oriented Analysis of Structural and Poetic-Expressive Relationships with Special Attention to his Choral Works and Threni | | | This web site is devoted to analysis and musical interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's works that include parts for chorus. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~stravinsky
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| | Voyager: Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring |
| | Rite Listening: an exploration of the inner workings of Stravinsky's music | | | Stravinsky's World: a look at Stravinsky's life and times | | | There's a diagram of the orchestra (one of the largest ever assembled), and you can go into each section, read about any instrument (Stravinsky included some weird ones), and play a sample. |
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http://www.midi-classics.com/p502.htm
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| | Roehampton University - Stravinsky |
| | Stravinsky the Global Dancer, a project of Roehampton's Centre for Dance Research, is a record of potentially all the dances to the music of this seminal dance composer. | | | You will find here a range of short listings and full record listings. |
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http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/stravinsky
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu No2; Duo Concertante |
| | Amazon.com: Music: Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu No2; Duo Concertante | | | Mavra, opera buffa in 1 act Russian Song, arranged by Igor Stravinsky and S. Dushkin | | | Ballad, for violin & piano (from The Fairy's Kiss, transcibed by Stravinsky & Jeanne Gautier) Ballad, arranged by Igor Stravinsky and J. Gautier |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001SEB?v=glance
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock BI-BY |
| | One can hear strains of Steve Reich, Stravinsky, Satie, Louis Andriessen, and Univers Zero running through their pieces, and they are not afraid to use a little musical humor on occasion. | | | The music on this CD, however, betrays their influences as well as their "formula" a bit more than the material I've seen them perform live. | | | Birdsongs play a unique, quirky mixture of minimalism, 20th century "classical," and prog. |
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http://www.gepr.net/bi.html
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| | ON CLASSICAL. Classical Music in MIDI files - MIDI: S |
| | To contribute works by this composer you *must* be sure the score is PD or you have permission from the copyright holder! | | | Stravinsky [Stravinski], Igor Fyodorovich (Oranienbaum, St. Petersburg 1882 - New York 1971); Rus. |
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http://www.kunstderfuge.com/midi-s.htm
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