Listening to Stravinsky
July 31st, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |
A rundown of what makes some of his music tick, with some nice (and short) excerpts for your listening pleasure.
Borrowing Is The Point
September 15th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Music |
The Times’ story about Dylan’s borrowing of lines from a Civil War-era poet may find its way into your paper this morning. Don’t fall for the premise: The history of the creative arts is the story of one artist building on the works of another. Allusions, quotations, and borrowings are what makes literature, and especially, music so rewarding.
The Last Great Composer?
September 2nd, 2006 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Music |
Well whose fault is that? A fine review of Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971 (see also the petulant rebuttal by Robert Craft) closes with the thought, “The composer George Perle observed when Stravinsky died that the world was without a great composer for the first time in six hundred years. It still [...]
Something much more important than ‘to like’
August 18th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Music |
Picking up a nice bottle of red to go with my steak tonight, the wine merchant here in Maplewood got my attention. Usually they’ve got a Brahms symphony on, but this time it was Stravinsky’s Orpheus. Now there’s something you don’t hear in a retail establishment every day. It got me too looking for I.S. blog resources, where I found a nice piece about his Variations. Here’s to sophisticated taste.
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