Stravinsky : the second exile : France and America, 1934-1971 /

Walsh, Stephen, 1942-

Stravinsky : the second exile : France and America, 1934-1971 / Stephen Walsh. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. - xvii, 709 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [679]-686) and index.

Entr'acte: A house divided -- A gentle and a free spirit -- The poet of Montparnasse -- Graves of academe -- An enemy of democracy -- Death deals... -- ...and wins -- To the magic mountain -- The poetics of survival -- A house in the hills -- To earn is human -- The broad way and the strait gate -- Distant clashes of arms -- Orpheus in a new guise -- The eye of the needle -- The progress begins -- A family happy in its own way -- Death of a prophet -- The time-traveller comes ashore -- Count one, count two, count twelve -- Brief encounter -- Competition of the Gods -- An echo chamber by candlelight -- The eternal footman holds his coat -- Talking the book -- He hath set me in dark places -- The pilot fish at sea -- A strange concoction -- Largo al factotum -- Sinking the ark -- A guest in his own country -- The Sacre Papers -- The sacrifice of Sir Isaiah -- Smiling for the camera -- Final curtain -- A family affair -- A fine and private place -- But none do there embrace -- Stravinsky's works from 1935.

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Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.


Composers--Biography.

ML410.S932 / W355 2006

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