Word: igor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russian Igor Stravinsky reharmonized the English tune which Congress in 1931 made the U.S. national anthem. Stravinsky's Russianized version of The Star-Spangled Banner is muscular and musicianly, but audiences don't like it too well. Last week Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony played first its standard arrangement, then Stravinsky's caviar-spangled version, asked the audience to vote its preference. Result: 203 for, 351 against Stravinsky...
...been in keeping herself and the rest of the group anonymous that TIME'S Hollywood correspondent declared: "To divulge her name would be the worst possible breach of journalistic faith." The Symphony invites conductors, well and little known, to preside over its sessions. José Iturbi, Igor Stravinsky, Georg Szell, Arnold Schönberg were glad of the chance. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, highbrow-turned-movie-composer, showed up with only 16? in his pocket. Nine members of the orchestra were assessed 1? each to make up his 25?. Favorite conductor so far has been Bruno Walter, who exclaimed...
...version of The Star-Spangled Banner, published last week, bore those words on the cover. The words and music were by a sometime modernist ear-splitter, a onetime Russian aristocrat, Igor Stravinsky. At first toot, the author of the raucous thumps and blats of The Rite of Spring (played in Walt Disney's Fantasia) hardly seemed a likely rearranger for the national anthem. But the Stravinskian Star-Spangled Banner, despite its slight Russian accent, is a genuinely spacious and stirring piece. It should be welcomed by conductors who, under the ukase of Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the musicians...
...orchestras, were told to make their choice. Conductor Janssen, sole backer of his orchestra, seemed unperturbed. His audience last week was near capacity (1,290). He had four more concerts scheduled (and four for children), with two newsworthy world premieres up his sleeve-new works by Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky...
...ballet's tendency to behave like a slap-happy amoeba-the troupes are different this year. In the finely trained Massine ballet are the most glamorous (Tamara Toumanova) and the most technically accomplished (Alexandra Danilova) of ballerinas, as well as three of the fleetest male dancers (Frederic Franklin, Igor Youskevitch, Andre Eglevsky...