Stravinsky in Context

Contents

• Preface; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations;
• Part I . Russia and Identity:
• 1. Memory and truth: Stravinsky's childhood (1882-1901) Catriona Kelly;
• 2. Religion, life and death in St Petersburg Natalia Braginskaya;
• 3. Kashperova and Stravinsky: the making of a concert-pianist Graham Griffiths;
• 4. Reminiscences of Rimsky-Korsakov, his family and artistic circle Lidia Ader;
• 5. Orthodoxies and unorthodoxies: Stravinsky's spiritual journey Ivan Moody;
• 6. The Russian soul Rowan Williams;
• Part II . Stravinsky and Europe:
• 7. Sergei Diaghilev and Stravinsky: from world of art to ballets russes John E. Bowlt;
• 8. Paris and the Belle Epoque Davinia Caddy;
• 9. Paris, Art Deco, and the spirit of Apollo Jonathan Cross;
• 10. Stravinsky's Spain: fan or mirror? Graham Griffiths;
• 11. 'It is Venice that he loves...' Mauricio Dottori;
• Part III . Partnerships and Authorship:
• 12. Stravinsky's sphere of influence: Paris and beyond Inessa Bazayev;
• 13. Stravinsky and his literary collaborators Maureen Carr;
• 14. Assuming co-authorship: Stravinsky and his 'ghost-writers' Valerie Dufour;
• 15. Nadia Boulanger and Stravinsky: the transition to America Kimberly Francis;
• 16. Conversations with Craft Anna Schmidtmann;
• Part IV . Performance and Performers:
• 17. Challenges to realism and tradition: Stravinsky's modernist theatre Massimiliano Locanto;
• 18. Igor Stravinsky and ballet as modernism Stephanie Jordan;
• 19. Stravinsky's ear for instruments Chris Dromey;
• 20. Towards a conductor-proof ideal Hannah Baxter;
• 21. The pianist in the recording studio: re-imagining interpretation Daniel Barolsky;
• 22. The legacy of Stravinsky as recorded history Per Dahl;
• Part V . Aesthetics and Politics:
• 23. Stravinsky versus literature Emily Frey;
• 24. Stravinsky and Greek antiquity Katerina Levidou;
• 25. Stravinsky's response to 'Japonisme' Mai Ikehara;
• 26. Stravinsky, modernism and mass culture Ross Cole;
• 27. Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky: Adorno and others Alan Street;
• 28. Stravinsky's 'problematical' political orientation during the 1920s and 1930s Erik Levi;
• Part VI . Reception and Legacy:
• 29. The Apollonian clockwork re-wound Elmer Schoenberger;
• 30. Stravinsky reception in the USSR Philip Ewell;
• 31. The Stravinsky/Craft conversations in Russian and their reception Olga Manulkina;
• 32. Publishing Stravinsky Nigel Simeone;
• 33. Copyright, the Stravinsky estate, and the Paul Sacher foundation Heidy Zimmermann;
• 34. Evoking the past, inspiring the future Lynne Rogers;
• 35. 'Music is, by its very essence, powerless to express anything at all' Daniel K L Chua; Index.