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Included in the Friday night program are: "In Ecclesiis" by Gabriel, scenes from "Oedipus Rex" by Stravinski, and "The Last Word of David" by Randall Thompson, chairman of the Music Department. G. Wallace Woodworth will conduct this Friday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Concert Will Support Tour | 11/2/1955 | See Source »

...wildest summer. I came back first class with a lady tennis player from Santa Barbara just to study the decadent bourgeoisie. I engaged in a Dada manifestation and helped put on a Stravinski ballet. I interviewed Abd-el-Krim in Morocco and wrote a play called Shall Be the Human Race but there's nothing worth seeing in Europe except the Ballet Russe and the révolution mondiale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unmaking of an American | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...truth lies far from either extreme. The "Nutcracker Suite" is strikingly beautiful, Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" is horribly realistic with the raw violence of the music matched by a dino saur death battle on the screen, and Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is hilariously comic--but Beethoven's "Pastoral" has become a bacchanalian nightmare and the Disney ballet which accompanies the "Dance of the Hours" is scarcely better than a Terry Toon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...appointment of Urena is not only a recognition of the important place of South America in the modern world, but it also upholds the traditional distinction that is expected of the lecturer." Previous holders of the chair have ranged from the American poet, Robert Frost, to the Slavic musician, Stravinski...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEDRO URENA WILL LECTURE | 10/4/1940 | See Source »

...Igor Stravinski, most famous of modern composers, will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a program of selections from his own works at Sanders Theater tonight at 8 o'clock. This is the first time Stravinski has conducted the Boston Symphony, to which he has dedicated certain of his works, and one of the first times he has ever conducted in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stravinski to Play | 3/14/1935 | See Source »

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