Stravinsky

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• Two examples, from her impressive "Transformation" disc, are the pianist's soulful performance of Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in F Minor and her sprightly, exceptionally characterful transversal of Igor Stravinsky's Three Movements From "Petrushka," a transcription based on his ballet score. The Fast and the Serious
• Choreographed to the 1947 Stravinsky score, Orpheus cleverly deploys six dancers to dramatise the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, with a chorus of living characters (Orpheus's friends/chorus) and the inhabitants of the underworld (Death and Furies). This week's new dance
• CCOT opened the program with performances of Stravinsky's instrumental "Ragtime" (1918) and the "burlesque" "Renard" (1916), both of which were acrobatically choreographed by Kun-Yang Lin. When Words Got in the Way
• It therefore follows the example of Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano in being scored for an accompanying wind ensemble plus double bass and timpani rather than orchestra.
• Stravinsky was commissioned in 1909 by Diaghilev to compose a new work for his famous ballet company to perform in Paris.
• Expression is not expelled with menacing pitchfork alla Stravinsky nor repressed like Ravel.
• His string-quartet concerto, after Handel, delightful though it may be, has as much relation to its originals as a pimpmobile to a plough or as Stravinsky's Pulcinella to ‘Pergolesi.’
• Fr. Kirby marshalls works of Kavanagh, Kovalevsky, Meyendorff, Ratzinger, Vagaggini, Stravinsky, and a number of others from both the Roman and Orthodox branches -- which is why I refer to the work as 'towards synthesis.' Fr. Mark Daniel Kirby on Chant
• I hear in Gerber's music a little bit of Bartók, some Stravinsky, Ravel, Sibelius, and English symphonists as well as movie music, pop jazz, folk song and dance, and even kid song.
• I first came across him on a 1997 ECM New Series CD, Dal Niente by clarinettist Eduard Brunner, which involves a sparse, spiralling series of solo clarinet pieces composed by the likes of Stockhausen, Stravinsky and Boulez, as well as by Lachenmann. Paul Morley on music