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Wisdom: "Bob, are you there?" called Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky from the piano in his soundproof Hollywood studio. "Come here. Sit down. I want to show you something." Squinching like a mole into neat, penetrating closeups, Composer Stravinsky then proceeded to show a young protege, Conductor Robert Craft, as well as several million Sunday afternoon viewers on NBC, how musical ideas occur. "You have to touch the music," said Stravinsky, innocent eyes bugging and jowls aquiver, "not only to hear it-because touching it, we feel the vibration of the music...
Most respected figure is the grand old man of Soviet graphic art, Book Illustrator Vladimir (Boris Godunov, The Lay of the Host of Igor) Favorsky, 71, whose prints have a turn-of-the-century, storybook quality but whose draftsmanship rated a "jolly able, jolly competent" from one British artist. Most original works were by Leonid Soifertis, staffer on the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil, whose casual hand turns out cartoons that rate a Soviet belly laugh, e.g., a dig at infant prodigies that shows a child with huge bull fiddle, both of which have to be carried on the stage. These...
...musical intelligence but a sinewy will that forced them to hew rigidly to the demands of their talents. The distinguished Boulanger alumni-they call themselves the "Boulangerie"-were gathered in all parts of the world last week to celebrate her 70 birthday. At the split-level chalet of Conductor Igor Markevitch, in the Swiss Alps near Montreux, "chère Nadia" herself,-white-haired, prim as ever in a black evening gown, held court before such famous ex-pupils as Pianist Clara Haskil, Cellist Pierre Fournier, Composer Darius Milhaud...
...Over the bubbly, breakneck music ex-pupils chanted their praise of Nadia. One, made up to look like President René Coty of France, paid the Fourth Republic's tribute; another, costumed like a priest, intoned, "St. Nadia, protect us," and two more singers, representing Sebastian (Bach) and Igor (Stravinsky), chanted: "Long live peaceful coexistence...
...mosaic construction, his occasional savagery, his new instrumental groupings seemed shocking in the early 1890, they were already conventional in the 1920s to ears becoming domesticated to the wild rhythms of Igor Stravinsky or the pulverized harmonies of the atonalists. About Stravinsky and his experiments, Sibelius remained steadfastly unenthusiastic; the works of Arnold Schoenberg he found "unsympathetic." Speaking of his serious, sometimes forbidding style, Sibelius said: "Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure water." But as he went on his own lonely way, he took huge, enthusiastic audiences with him: no serious composer...