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...Igor Strawinski, Serge Elisseeff, Werner W. Jaeger, and Archibald Macleish were among those elected as fellows. Percy W. Bridgman, Sidney B. Fay, Abbott P. Usher and Arthur N. Holcombe were among the officers chosen...
Half a century ago, when frail, poetic Edward MacDowell was No. 1 U. S. composer, the models for high-brow music were Brahms, Grieg, Wagner. Just before World War I, Kulturbolschewiks Arnold Schonberg and Igor Stravinsky (TIME, March 11) led a revolution against musical romanticism. When the revolution was over, U. S. composers still found themselves writing European music. Such U. S. composers as Aaron Copland and John Alden Carpenter tried to go native by using jazz tunes, but only the tunes were American. The musical grammar and syn tax still sounded like Brahms or Stravinsky. Today there is still...
Married. Composer Igor Stravinsky, 57, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (whose first wife died in 1939); and Vera de Bossett Sudeikine, onetime dancer with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russe; in Bedford, Mass...
Thus speaks Igor Strawinsky in his autobiography, about his opera-oratorio, "Oedipus Rex". Even a casual hearing confirms the fact that for his choral idiom Strawinsky has turned back to the principles of the classical style. Present-day choral composers, Vaughan-Williams and Delius among them, have studied how words sound, and in their music have concentrated on the flow and meaning of language. Strawinsky in "Oedipus" uses the choral technique of the eighteenth century masters. Employing the text purely as musical material, he achieves his effects by distorting the words, changing their pronunciation, and shifting accents, without regard...
...Igor Strawinsky, noted composer and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will give a free public lecture in French tonight on "Les Avatars de la Musique Russe," in the New Lecture Hall, at 3:15 o'clock...