Word: firebird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polka for Jumbo. Yet all his life Igor Stravinsky has written music, sometimes great music, to order-for people who would hire him on his terms. The Firebird, Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky's best ballet scores, were commissioned. He has composed a polka for elephants for the Ringling Brothers, a Scherzo á la Russe for Paul Whiteman, Ballet Scenes for Billy Rose, an Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his jazzband. Scherzo á la Russe was written to fit one side of a Whiteman record (says Stravinsky: "He played it very badly. He has a very...
Bebop to Ballet. At 66, Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky, if not the greatest living composer, is certainly the most influential. Since the violent rhythms, brutal harmonies and splashing tone colors of Firebird, Petrouchka and Rite of Spring first exploded on an astonished-and unprepared -world 35 years ago, Stravinsky has been imitated, consciously or unconsciously, by composers from bebop to ballet, from Russia to the redwoods...
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks Concerto (Dumbarton Oaks Festival Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Keynote, 4 sides). Pleasant latter-day Stravinsky, but baked in only the embers of the once-powerful fire that produced Petrouchka and The Firebird. Recording: good...
Stravinsky reduced Firebird's rondo to a simple foxtrot, and brought it back. Levy had his boys write 35 versions of the lyrics before he finally settled on one written by John (Heartaches') Klenner. He named it Summer Moon. Stravinsky changed only one word. Copies went out to what Levy calls "the guys with the big pipes"-Melchior, Nelson Eddy. Said Levy: "When guys like Sinatra and Crosby hear them singing it, they'll want to do it quick. Create a demand, that's what you do. But control the demand too. You gotta...
Last week, the process known as creating a demand began. Front-page headlines read: STRAVINSKY ADAPTS HIS 'FIREBIRD,' SEEKING JUKE-BOX FAME, ROYALTIES...