Levitz Tamara (ed.) Stravinsky and His World

The Bard Music Festival. — Princeton University Press, 2013. — 385 p.: ill.: musical examplesStravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of the twentieth century.
Contributors examine Stravinsky's interaction with Spanish and Latin American modernism, rethink the stylistic label "neoclassicism" with a section on the ideological conflict over his lesser-known opera buffa Mavra, and reassess his connections to his homeland, paying special attention to Stravinsky's visit to the Soviet Union in 1962. The essays also explore Stravinsky's musical and religious differences with Arthur Lourié, delve into Stravinsky's collaboration with Pyotr Suvchinsky and Roland-Manuel in the genesis of his groundbreaking Poetics of Music, and look at how the movement within stasis evident in the scores of Stravinsky's Orpheus and Oedipus Rex reflected the composer's fierce belief in fate. Rare documents--including Spanish and Mexican interviews, Russian letters, articles by Arthur Lourié, and rarely seen French and Russian texts--supplement the volume, bringing to life Stravinsky's rich intellectual milieu and intense personal relationships.The contributors are Tatiana Baranova, Leon Botstein, Jonathan Cross, Valérie Dufour, Gretchen Horlacher, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, Leonora Saavedra, and Svetlana Savenko.Preface and Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Titles of Works
Credits and Permissions
Stravinsky In Exile (Jonathan Cross)
Who Owns Mavra? A Transnational Dispute
Introduction and Notes by Tamara Levitz
Translations by Bridget Behrmann, Katya Ermolaev, Laurel E. Fay, Alexandra Grabarchuk, and Tamara Levitz
Stravinsky’s Russian Library, Tatiana Baranova Monighetti
The Futility of Exhortation: Pleading In Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Orpheus (Gretchen Horlacher)
Symphonies and Funeral Games: Lourié’s Critique of Stravinsky’s Neoclassicism (Klára Móricz)
Arthur Lourié’s Eurasianist and Neo-thomist Responses To the Crisis of Art
Introduction and Notes by Klára Móricz
Translation by Bridget Behrmann, Katya Ermolaev, Yasha Klots, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, and Boris Wolfson
Igor The Angeleno: The Mexican Connection (Tamara Levitz)
Stravinsky Speaks To The Spanish-speaking World
Introduction by Leonora Saavedra
Interviews Translated by Mariel Fiori
In Collaboration With Tamara Levitz
Document Notes by Tamara Levitz