Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971Stephen Walsh's magisterial, engagingly written two-volume Stravinsky is the most detailed and extensive work available on the life of the man widely regarded as the greatest composer of the twentieth century. This second volume takes up the composer's story in 1934, in a Europe growing ever more chaotic in the lead-up to World War II. Walsh follows Stravinsky's emigration to the United States, where he courted Hollywood, associated with writers and artists including Aldous Huxley, W.H. Auden, and George Balanchine, began a career as a conductor and recording artist, and composed a string of masterpieces that changed the course of twentieth-century music. Stravinsky: The Second Exile takes full account of Russian-language sources, including much correspondence, made available since the composer's death and since the fall of the Soviet Union, and is the first work to thoroughly assess the authenticity of many of the writings published under Stravinsky's name. |
Contents
A Gentle and Free Spirit | 3 |
The Poet of Montparnasse | 14 |
Graves of Academe | 27 |
An Enemy of Democracy | 42 |
Death Deals | 56 |
and Wins | 74 |
To Earn Is Human | 89 |
The Poetics of Survival | 104 |
An Echo Chamber by Candlelight | 330 |
The Eternal Footman Holds His Coat | 345 |
Talking the Book | 357 |
He Hath Set Me in Dark Places | 373 |
The Pilot Fish at Sea | 388 |
A Strange Concoction | 403 |
Largo al Factotum | 419 |
Sinking the Ark | 433 |
A House in the Hills | 124 |
To Earn Is Human | 141 |
The Broad Way and the Strait Gate | 155 |
Distant Clashes of Arms | 172 |
Orpheus in a New Guise | 188 |
The Eye of the Needle | 203 |
The Progress Begins | 219 |
A Family Happy in Its Own Way | 235 |
Death of a Prophet | 251 |
The TimeTraveller Comes Ashore | 268 |
Count One Count Two Count Twelve | 285 |
Brief Encounter | 302 |
Competition of the Gods | 316 |
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