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    Stravinsky in the Americas : transatlantic tours and domestic excursions from wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945) / H. Colin Slim, foreword by Richard Taruskin.

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    • Title:Stravinsky in the Americas : transatlantic tours and domestic excursions from wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945) / H. Colin Slim, foreword by Richard Taruskin.
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    • Author/Creator:Slim, H. Colin (Harry Colin), author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Taruskin, Richard, writer of foreword.
    • Published/Created:Oakland : University of California Press, [2019]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Travel--United States.
      Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Criticism and interpretation.
      Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.
    • Description:xxvi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
    • Series:California studies in 20th-century music ; 23.
    • Summary:"Stravinsky in the Americas explores the "pre-Craft" period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945. Through a rich archival trove of ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and other documents, eminent musicologist H. Colin Slim examines the twenty-year period which began with Stravinsky as a radical European art-music composer and ended with him as a popular figure in American culture. This collection traces Stravinsky's rise to fame--catapulted in large part by his collaborations with Hollywood and Disney and marked by his extra-marital affairs, his grappling with feelings of anti-Semitism, and his encounters with contemporary musicians as the music industry was emerging and taking shape in midcentury America. Slim's lively narrative records the composer's larger-than-life persona through a close look at his transatlantic tours and domestic excursions, where Stravinsky's personal and professional life collided in often dramatic ways"--Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:"Roth Family Foundation imprint in music"-- page [i].
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780520299924 hardcover ; alkaline paper
      0520299922 hardcover ; alkaline paper
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Tour I (1925) / Richard Taruskin
      Two Veras in Paris / Richard Taruskin
      New York with secretary-valet, translator-blackmailer, Sabline / Richard Taruskin
      Piano and podium in eastern and midwestern cities: Paul Kochanski and Gershwin / Richard Taruskin
      Hoytie's party and Lester Donahue / Richard Taruskin
      Critics of Octet and Piano Concerto / Richard Taruskin
      Steinway's dinner and the inscribed, piano-shaped, chocolate cake / Richard Taruskin
      Greta Torpadie, chamber concerts, cropped photos / Richard Taruskin
      Roerig's interview and Schoenberg's delayed verdict / Richard Taruskin
      Pianola rolls and phonograph records - Thanks for eighteen Steinways / Richard Taruskin
      Consulting Dr. Garbat / Richard Taruskin
      Avoiding Soudeikine at the Met's Petrushka / Richard Taruskin
      Antithetic reactions about the United States: Cincinnati (March) and home in Nice (May) / Richard Taruskin
      Kochanski's Pulcinella Suite reassigned / Richard Taruskin
      Enjoying the tour's profits with American expats and Picasso on the Riviera / Richard Taruskin
      Composer as conductor / Richard Taruskin
      2. Tour II (1935) / Richard Taruskin
      Growing repertoire and anti-Semitism / Richard Taruskin
      Leaner takings with violinist Dushkin / Richard Taruskin
      Dagmar Godowsky's New York tea / Richard Taruskin
      Agent Severin Kavenoki / Richard Taruskin
      Autographing record jackets in New York and San Francisco / Richard Taruskin
      Chez Dr. Alexis Kall in Los Angeles: newspaper action shots and Weston's dozen photographs; twenty-nine MGM composers; the Aguilar Lute Quartet; signing Edward G. Robinson's piano / Richard Taruskin
      address in English to a Denver audience / Richard Taruskin
      Dagmar and Stravinsky on a Washington-New York train / Richard Taruskin
      Sailing home, but not with Dushkin / Richard Taruskin
      Composer as conductor / Richard Taruskin
      3. Tour III (1936) / Richard Taruskin
      With son Soulima to Buenos Aires / Richard Taruskin
      Political Argentina aghast / Richard Taruskin
      Nijinska, Aida Mastrazzi, Victoria Ocampo, and a discarded autograph for Juan Jost Castro / Richard Taruskin
      Montevideo / Richard Taruskin
      Dagmar appears in Rio de Janeiro / Richard Taruskin
      Composer as conductor / Richard Taruskin
      4. Tour IV (1937) / Richard Taruskin
      New York with Dushkin and wife / Richard Taruskin
      Toronto with Kavenoki and Sir Ernest MacMillan / Richard Taruskin
      Montreal with Dushkin / Richard Taruskin
      New York: Praeludiumfor Reichman? or Reisman? / Richard Taruskin
      Spotted by Noel Coward / Richard Taruskin
      Touring with the Cleveland Orchestra / Richard Taruskin
      Thoughtful autographs for a Cleveland patroness / Richard Taruskin
      US premiere in Winnetka with Beveridge Webster of Two-Piano Concerto / Richard Taruskin
      Los Angeles: a Shrine Petrushka; recollections of Old Russia in dicta for Kall; a last meeting with Gershwin / Richard Taruskin
      San Francisco: a little-known dual portrait with Monteux / Richard Taruskin
      Northwest / Richard Taruskin
      Tubercular relapses in New York / Richard Taruskin
      Dealing with Kavenoki, Boris Morros, Dagmar / Richard Taruskin
      Balanchine premieres Jeu de cartes / Richard Taruskin
      Sailing home with two conductors and Nadia Boulanger / Richard Taruskin
      Dagmar meets Vera Soudeikina in Paris / Richard Taruskin
      Composer as conductor / Richard Taruskin
      Dagmar and unrealized tours (1938-39) / Richard Taruskin
      5. Tour V (October 1939-Late May 1940) / Richard Taruskin
      Tuberculosis (March-2 September 1939) "cured" at Sancellemoz: preparing the Norton lectures, and booking US engagements / Richard Taruskin
      At Harvard with Kall (October) / Richard Taruskin
      Dagmar, Stravinsky, Kall, and his former pupil Adele Marcus dine in Boston / Richard Taruskin
      Intersemester December concerts: San Francisco, and a first setting of English / Richard Taruskin
      Elliot Forbes, Jan LaRue recollect Stravinsky at Harvard / Richard Taruskin
      Meeting Kall's former pupil Dorothy Ellis McQuoid at Christmas in Los Angeles / Richard Taruskin
      March 1940 premieres with Marcus of Two-Piano Concerto in Boston and New York / Richard Taruskin
      Marrying in Massachusetts / Richard Taruskin
      Kall translates Poetique musicale / Richard Taruskin
      Late May departures for California with Vera, Kall, and friend Gregory Golubev / Richard Taruskin
      McQuoids welcome Stravinskys / Richard Taruskin
      Composer as conductor / Richard Taruskin
      6. Excursions (1940-1941) / Richard Taruskin
      Transient immigrant renters in Los Angeles and Hollywood (May 1940-March 1941) / Richard Taruskin
      First Mexican tour and US reentry permits / Richard Taruskin
      Bowl Firebird / Richard Taruskin
      McQuoid's three photographs / Richard Taruskin
      Joining Local 47 / Richard Taruskin
      Babitz rehearses Violin Concerto / Richard Taruskin
      Kall-Golubev lecture / Richard Taruskin
      Kavenoki and the Pushkin pamphlet / Richard Taruskin
      Finishing Symphony in C and its premieres (November 1940-February 1941): Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, and Los Angeles / Richard Taruskin
      Tango: Feist, Vernon Duke, and Katherine Dunham / Richard Taruskin
      New Year greetings from New York for both McQuoids; Kall's "white elephants" / Richard Taruskin
      New York: coaching Marcus (February 1941) for Capriccio; Los Angeles: Mrs. McQuoid subs for Marcus's first rehearsal with Stravinsky / Richard Taruskin
      Pondering Symphony in C; Beverly Hills, Pearl Harbor, and St. Louis (December 1941) / Richard Taruskin
      Hollywood homeowners at North Wetherly (April 1941 January 1942) / Richard Taruskin
      Symphony in C receives a Marxist review on second Mexican tour (August 1941); finds favor in St. Louis and San Francisco / Richard Taruskin
      Teaching Earnest Andersson: Futurama and forty photos / Richard Taruskin
      Tango and Jost Iturbi scandalize Philadelphia / Richard Taruskin
      James Sample and multiple "Star-Spangled Banners" (St. Louis affronted; San Francisco enthralled) / Richard Taruskin
      Dagmar parties in Los Angeles / Richard Taruskin
      Milhauds assist and receive in Oakland / Richard Taruskin
      Charles Cushing's UC Berkeley band / Richard Taruskin
      Stravinsky as salesman / Richard Taruskin
      patriotic Christmas card / Richard Taruskin
      Prospective movie scores outweigh Tanglewood / Richard Taruskin
      7. Excursions (1942) / Richard Taruskin
      San Francisco / Richard Taruskin
      Composer as teacher: Futurama assessed / Richard Taruskin
      Mostly at home: Stravinsky as gardener / Richard Taruskin
      "secret" commission (Danes concertantes) / Richard Taruskin
      Sample recommended / Richard Taruskin
      Julian Brodetsky and Apollon / Richard Taruskin
      joint movie score: Four Norwegian Moods, with Alexandre Tansman / Richard Taruskin
      Partying at Andersson's: an autographed apron and Miklos Rozsa tattles / Richard Taruskin
      Babitz arranges a 1923 "gesang" / Richard Taruskin
      Circus Polka: Balanchine, Jack Benny / Richard Taruskin
      8. Excursions (1943) / Richard Taruskin
      North Star / Richard Taruskin
      Petrushka: in New York, San Francisco, at the LA Shrine, and the Met / Richard Taruskin
      NBC broadcasts Symphony in C nationwide / Richard Taruskin
      shortfall of musicians / Richard Taruskin
      Songwriting in English for the Milhauds / Richard Taruskin
      Mourning Andersson / Richard Taruskin
      Sergeant Klaus Mann auctions some Schoenberg and one Stravinsky "Star-Spangled Banner" / Richard Taruskin
      Ode: its central tune and "Bessie's Song" / Richard Taruskin
      Working with Koussevitzky and anti-Semitism / Richard Taruskin
      "Lessons" for Leyssac / Richard Taruskin
      9. Excursions (1944) / Richard Taruskin
      Stravinsky "criminalized" in Boston / Richard Taruskin
      Nicolas Nabokov, the Symphony in C and "monometricalism" / Richard Taruskin
      No theatre music for Mercedes de Acosta / Richard Taruskin
      Kall: translator and teased amputee / Richard Taruskin
      Dahl's multiple roles in Scenes de ballet / Richard Taruskin
      Scherzo a la Russe and Sonata for Two Pianos: origins, premieres, metamorphoses / Richard Taruskin
      Babel: text setting and a precarious low B-natural / Richard Taruskin
      Composer as teacher / Richard Taruskin
      Dr. de Bourg and Stravinsky's sons / Richard Taruskin
      10. Excursions (1945-Early 1946) / Richard Taruskin
      "Victory" symphony for war and peace / Richard Taruskin
      War's end in August 1945: a war symphony brought into peacetime; finishing the often octatonic Symphony in Three Movements (1942-45) and its finale's "expected C" / Richard Taruskin
      Postwar premieres and reactions in New York, Boston, San Francisco (1946), Washington, DC (1948), Los Angeles (1947, led by Klemperer), and Oakland (1968, by Craft) / Richard Taruskin
      Dahl's discredited program notes and those preferred / Richard Taruskin
      Wartime and postwar conductor / Richard Taruskin.
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