The Rite of Spring is Stravinsky?s most revolutionary work. This important new book provides a comprehensive guide to the work, telling in vivid detail the story of its inception and composition, of the stormy rehearsals which led to the scandalous premiere on 29 May 1913, and of Stravinsky?s later [...]

A work in which Stravinsky, prompted by Robert Craft, reviewed his long and remarkable life. It brings the Imperial Russia of his childhood into focus, at the same time scanning what were at the time the brave new horizons of Boulez and Stockhausen.[...]

Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of [...]

Aimed at the interested layperson, this biography reveals to what extent Igor Stravinsky was a major figure of the 20th century, not just in music, but in cultural and intellectual life in general. This volume covers the period from his birth in 1882 until 1934, the year he settled in France.[...]

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) was the inventor of modern music, comparable in versatility and influence to his close friend and contemporary Pablo Picasso. Famous for ballets, he composed neo-Classical and serialist works, but his style, while variable, was always highly distinctive. He has been the s[...]

(Artist Transcriptions). This fabulous songbook features note-for-note transcriptions of pianist supreme Art Tatum's interpretations of 15 jazz standards: After You've Gone * Ain't Misbehavin' * Aunt Hagar's Blues * Blue Skies * Body and Soul * Cocktails for Two * Honeysuckle Rose * How High the Moo[...]

Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces an[...]

Coco Chanel and Composer Igor Stravinsky.
Their love affair inspired their art.
Their art defined an era.
In 1913, at the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," the young couturiere Coco Chanel witnesses the birth of a musical revolution- one that, like her designs, rips down t[...]

Robert Craft was assistant, companion and confidant to Igor Stravinsky for the last two decades of the composer's life, an intimate working relationship that is unique in musical history. Now, in his 90th year, Craft has produced a book of astonishing freshness, warmth and wit as he surveys through[...]