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| Contents |
Part I. Miscellanea. Contingencies (With some notes on "Twentieth-century mannerism"). Words ; Current enemies of art ; Art and money ; The rising cost of art ; An imperfect science ; Education by automation ; Talent and the population explosion ; Provincialism ; Form and function ; New music: five examples ; Conspiracy of silence ; Longevity ; The new terminology ; By any other name? ; Individuality ; Change of life ; Eye music ; Envoi -- Program notes. Pribaoutki ; Symphonies of wind instruments ; Eight instrumental miniatures ; Three sacred choruses ; Four etudes for orchestra ; Jeu de Cartes ; Dumbarton Oaks concerto ; Symphony in C ; Danses concertantes ; Orpheus ; The Rake's Progress ; The Rake's Progress: "La Prima Assoluta" ; Greeting prelude ; Abraham and Isaac ; Elegy for J.F.K. ; Variations ; Introitus: T.S. Eliot in Memoriam -- Letters and ripostes (Billets Doux). Letter to a cousin in Moscow (from Vera Stravinsky) ; Concerning a music journalist in Los Angeles ; Concerning Edgard Varese ; Some observations on V.D. -- Interviews. Transcript of BBC television interview ; In the name of Jean-Jacques! ; A talk with Stravinsky ; A perfect total ; A decade later -- Obituary. Some table talk of T.S. Eliot -- Book reviews. Schoenberg's letters ; Wagner's prose -- On conductors and conducting -- Part II. From the diaries of Robert Craft, 1949-1966. 1949 ; 1950 ; 1951 ; 1952 ; 1955 ; 1956 ; 1957 ; 1958 ; 1961 ; 1962 ; 1963 ; 1964 ; 1965 ; 1966. |
| Abstract |
Comments by composer Stravinsky on a variety of topics, mostly musical. |
| LCCN | 66019373 |
