How To Use Stravinsky In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Stravinsky was commissioned in 1909 by Diaghilev to compose a new work for his famous ballet company to perform in Paris.
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Expression is not expelled with menacing pitchfork alla Stravinsky nor repressed like Ravel.
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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.’
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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
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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.
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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
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Any celebration of Stravinsky must include dance, and Mark Morris, whose choreographic work for a previous festival, "Mozart Dances," miraculously captured every musical shape and impulse in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11, is now offering Stravinsky's "Renard," a small theater piece based on a Russian tale about farmyard animals outwitting a prowling fox.
Stravinsky Crashes the Party
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LYCEUM CHAMBER CONCERT, by violinist Benjamin Scott and pianist Brad Clark, works by Stravinsky, Howard Blake and Arvo Pärt. 3 p.m., the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.,
Alexandria and Arlington events, June 24 to July 1, 2010
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Stravinsky would produce a second masterly score for the 1911 season when Fokine choreographed Petrushka, the sad, sinister tale of a puppet which provided yet another vehicle for the uncanny talents of Nijinsky.
Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance
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Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet.
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Balanchine choreographed many pieces to Stravinsky's music
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He studied the work of classical composers like Debussy and Stravinsky.
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After three years with Dalcroze, first as a student and later as a teacher and demonstrator, she joined Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in late 1912 to train the dancers in eurhythmics and assist Nijinsky in using the technique to create his ballet Le Sacre du Printemps, with its complex score by Igor Stravinsky.
Marie Rambert.
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Proust entered after 2am, dapper and strange, "blinking like a night-bird", as someone once said of him, and he soon got into a markedly unfriendly conversation with Stravinsky about Beethoven's late quartets.
Diaghilev: Lord of the dance
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Auden, in his librettos for Britten, Stravinsky, and Henze, established himself as an important writer in the form.
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At its controversial opening night Nijinsky's choreography was considered almost as shocking as the churning rhythms and clamorous orchestration of Stravinsky's score.
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At the same time he was rapidly developing his musical style on the basis of Schoenberg's serialism, the rhythmic methods of Stravinsky and Messiaen, and Webern's tightly integrated approach to composition.
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I was obsessed with that music," he said, noting his ideas for "Central Market" took a cue from "Petrushka," Stravinsky's evocation of the Shrovetide Fair in 19th century St. Petersburg.
Whistle While He Works
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Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet.
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And when you listen to the Eighth and the Ninth, you hear anticipations of Alban Berg and further things that you will find again in Stravinsky and in Messaien, and which you also find again in John Adams.
Bruckner in a New Light
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Stravinsky's score was played excellently.
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Stravinsky then turned to a pagan rite of a girl dancing herself to death before the elders in order to propitiate the god of spring.
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Like Schoenberg, both composers were generally nonpracticing members of their religions (Bernstein a Jew and Stravinsky Russian Orthodox), and developed instead their own brands of spirituality.
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Yet however much one likes the idea of these works, with their debts to Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky, one feels underwhelmed, as if Szymanowski lacked the courage of his convictions, and never comfortably inhabited the musical world he had fashioned for himself.
Szymanowski Focus
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Pärt uses wind as well as strings, and separates the settings of the texts with instrumental ritornelli and interludes, which sometimes have a neoclassical feeling, not that far removed from Stravinsky.
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The solemn opening Persichetti calls a ‘chorale,’ but it's definitely a chorale filtered through Stravinsky.
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Despite the complex rhythms of his compositions, Stravinsky's music is imbued with the spirit of the dance, and it was not just in the scores written specifically for ballet that he produced ideal ballet music.
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He wrote that "any musician who has not experienced — we do not say understood, but experienced — the necessity of the dodecaphonic language is USELESS," which everyone understood to mean Stravinsky.
The 'Mash of Myriad Sounds'
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I have discovered a few minor ones, but the biggest gaffe so far - a large chunk missing from Stravinsky's work list - has already been seen to, and purchasers of the books will receive a reprint of the full list.
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The combustibles include Beethoven, Stravinsky and even Jerry Lee Lewis, who took the notion of combustibility seriously one night in 1958 when he gassed up his piano and set it ablaze while playing.
From Honkytonk To High Art
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For reasons having little to do with music, none of the dances here have held on to the repertory, as the Stravinsky and Copland ballets have, for example.
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And as often happens with nonagenarians (which she was that summer), the people of whom she spoke most affectionately - Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, - were all dead.
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Stravinsky was, in Adorno's opinion, evading existentialist man's duty to confront his own times in all their complexity and atrociousness.
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Igor Stravinsky was the first composer to have his complete works recorded while he was still alive.
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He promulgated the obliteration of all signs of tradition from compositions, even going so far as to denunciate Schoenberg and Stravinsky for elements of compromise in their later music.
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The recording gives the most convincing performance of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' to date.
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Stravinsky was commissioned in 1909 by Diaghilev to compose a new work for his famous ballet company to perform in Paris.
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For him, rhythms are incisive and repetitive - out of Stravinsky, but also connected to pop and jazz.
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The Szymanowski was the highlight of a program that also offered Mr. Dutoit and the Philadelphians in technically brilliant but curiously detached performances of "La Mer," by Debussy, and "The Rite of Spring," by Stravinsky.
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The Apollo piano reduction is by Stravinsky himself, so the notes are sacrosanct, Matjias says.
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During the 1920's, Stravinsky had often been heard as the soloist in his piano concerto.
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I also vividly remember attending the BBC Symphony Orchestra premieres of Stravinsky's Requiem canticles and Boulez's Eclat, in which she took a leading part.
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It surged through the mellifluous, Mozart-inflected string deluges of Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta," then picked along Stravinsky's cubist angularities, where flashes of stridency were momentarily backlit by lyricism.
A Shining Study in Vision
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Stravinsky originally conceived of the ballet as a modernist work - a rumbustious Joycean collage depicting a Russian village wedding.
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Copland, of course, owed a lot to the Russian Stravinsky, but not his sense of melody, embedded in the American vernacular.
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All three authors point out that as a composer Stravinsky was very pragmatic.
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Like Freud, Stravinsky takes King Oedipus as his sole source, though the libretto by Jean Cocteau employs a dramaturgy often seen as pre-empting the alienation effects of Brechtian theatre.
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For instance, we can hear Copland-esque rhythmic jauntiness in mailman Mario's funny exchanges with Neruda and out-takes of Britten's Peter Grimes to indicate foreboding, and even hints of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in some choral passages.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
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For reasons having little to do with music, none of the dances here have held on to the repertory, as the Stravinsky and Copland ballets have, for example.
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It's the same dry, clean-cut, bright, energetic world that drew Stravinsky to a later Italian composer, Pergolesi, in Pulcinella.
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Probably because it's an early work, its influences sound out rather clearly: early Stravinsky, Soviet Prokofieff, Borodinish orientalia, and here and there a bit of Blochian meditation.
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The sounds of Stravinsky's instrumentation are not far away.
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The Schoenbergians and Webernistes didn't fit him all that well (his own twelve-tone music derived from Stravinsky and Copland).
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There's almost no revamping of Baroque or Classical keyboard fingerings, and the rhythm taps out more lyrically than I find in Stravinsky.
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Rubies, set to Stravinsky's Capriccio For Piano And Orchestra, fast forwards to 20th-century America and a stageful of jazzy dancers.
This week's new theatre and dance
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What Stravinsky leaves out, though is the fact that much of the booing was due to a claque that had been paid by enemies of the composer to disrupt the performance.
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Stravinsky no longer causes riots in the streets
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Such widely varied writers as Webern, Dallapiccola, and Stravinsky rely heavily on the textures and idioms of early choral music.
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Richard Taruskin: Stravinsky and the Russian traditions: a biography of the works through Mavra (Oxford, 1996); idem: Defining Russia musically: historical and hermeneutical essays (Princeton, 1997).
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Of Falla in Paris, Stravinsky wrote: ‘His nature was the most unpityingly religious I have ever known - and the least sensible to manifestations of humor.’
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An energetic, parodic drawing of dancers based on a celebrated print from the Romantic Ballet era encapsulates, along with a witty drawing of Igor Stravinsky, Picasso's association with Sergei Diaghilev and his experimental Ballets Russes.
Portrait of a Restless Artist as a Young Man
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So I stepped back from it and thought, how would someone like Stravinsky harmonize this?
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It comes across as a wonderful combo of neoclassical Stravinsky and Maurice Chevalier.
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Then a gramophone is a necessity, and all kinds of records will be necessary -- Beethoven, Stravinsky, Rimski-Korsikoff, Harry Lauder, Fox
A Dominie in Doubt
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Musicologists know that Stravinsky mined collections of Russian folk music for motifs.
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By this principle, Stravinsky will be able to "supervise" future recordings of his oeuvre for years to come, in quadraphonic, dodecaphonic, and interplanetary sound, or whatever other inanities of planned obsolescence remain to be devised.
Stravinsky
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Stravinsky, who had rescored part of the ballet, staunchly defended Diaghilev's enterprise, though it nearly bankrupted the company, the lavish sets and costumes being used to repay creditors.
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There are musicologists who assert that the three great innovators in our musical history were Monteverdi, Bach, and Stravinsky, though the assertion is disputable.
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For his 1972 "Stravinsky Violin Concerto," the female dancers wear black leotards and black tights with stirrups over their pointe shoes, a look that elongates the leg.
...And Tread All Over
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Werner Reinhart, who was on equally good terms with Stravinsky and Schoenberg (but bigotedly in the case of Schoenberg, as Mr. Taruskin's quotation exposes), may have been responsible, if inadvertently, since he seems to have gone back and forth between the composers.
'Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange
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These variations were followed by three very different interpretations of Stravinsky.
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Prof. GARDNER: Stravinsky is the person early in this century who essentially undid music which we would call melodic or harmonic.
Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness
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Here was Stravinsky , a musical revolutionary whose own evolution never stopped.
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It amply justifies my contention that for Stravinsky in the Twenties, the word "modernism" had become "a code for that specifically postromantic legacy of revolution and chaos exemplified in politics by the Bolsheviks, and in music by the expressionistic atonal works of Schoenberg.
'Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange
